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A Terrorist Threat In The Sahara?

January 2007 | Political Risk Analysis

Attention has been re-focused on the Algerian Islamist militants, the Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC, Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat) who last year re-affirmed their allegiance to al-Qaeda, having already declared their loyalty to the terrorist group in a 2003 statement. A breakaway group formed by former members of the Groupe Islamique Armé (GIA, Armed Islamic Group) during the Algerian civil war in the 1990s, the GSPC has rejected the national reconciliation process and the amnesty for militants, and aims to establish an Islamic state in the North African country. According to the authorities, there

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