Al Qaeda in desperate plea for more terrorists in North Africa
Al Qaeda has issues a plea for more fighters to join its terrorist activities in North Africa
The SITE Intelligence Group has reported that Al Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb (AQIM) has appealed for new recruits from North African
countries in its fight against what it said was France's "Crusader"
campaign in Mali.
The global jihad monitoring company stated that the appeal was posted
on websites used by AQIM on Saturday 16th March and urged Islamist
terrorists being pursued by their governments to join Al Qaeda fighters
battling French-led forces in Mali or Algeria.
France launched a ground and air operation in Mali in January this year
in an attempt to break Islamist rebels' hold on the region. French
officials have stated that the terrorists pose a risk to the security of
West Africa and Europe.
The call to arms however looks increasingly desperate as AQIM come
under further pressure from local authorities and international
intervention. The statement reads:
"The front of the Islamic Maghreb today is in direst need of the
support of the sons of Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, and Mauritania, to
thwart the attack of Crusader France and defeat its agents in the
region, and empower the Islamic project." (Translation of the statement
emailed by SITE).
AQIM qualified its call to action by stating that if Islamist youths in
North Africa could have a greater impact in their own countries, they
should stay to fight secularism and push for the imposition of
sharia-based rule.
France's offensive has wrested northern Mali from Islamist occupation
and killed scores of fighters. Other rebels have retreated into mountain
caves and desert hiding places stocked with arms and supplies.
The Algerian army in January killed at least 32 Al Qaeda-linked
terrorists in an assault to end a siege at a desert gas plant in which
23 hostages were killed, many of them foreigners.
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Labels: Conflict, France, Islamism, Mali, North Africa, Terrorism
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, March 19, 2013
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