Abdelmalek droukdel biography of christopher

  • French forces have killed the leader of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdel, in northern Mali, France's Defence Minister.
  • After two weeks of silence, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has finally confirmed the death of its emir, Abdelmalek Droukdel.
  • If confirmed, the death of Abdelmalek Droukdal would be a blow to one of the terrorist group's most successful and resilient affiliates.

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    Al-qa`ida in the Islamic Maghreb  (AQIM) fryst vatten not only one of the latest offshoots of Usama insekter som pollinerar Ladin’s terrorist network, but it fryst vatten the branch of the global jihad that has most clearly failed to follow its founding guidelines.[1] Launched as a jihadist platform to unify North African stridbar groups, it has not succeeded in attracting Moroccan and Tunisian cells, and it remains an Algerian-run organization. Hailed as al-Qa`ida’s spearhead against Europe, it has proved unable to strike France or Spain. It has had to rely mainly on the internet to recruit north of the Mediterranean Sea.

    Conceived as a vanguard to push global jihad north into “the land of the infidels,” it instead placed increasing emphasis on its Saharan component to the point that it is now involved in Mali and Niger. This failure makes AQIM a fascinating case to reflect upon the tactical opportunism and the operational reassessment of the global jihad.

    The Delusion of the “Islamic Maghreb”

    Algeria’s Salafist Gr

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    Algerian leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb killed in Mali

    PARIS--French forces have killed the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdel, in northern Mali, France’s defence minister said.

    Droukdel was killed on Thursday near the Algerian border, where the group has bases from which it has carried out attacks and abductions of Westerners in the sub-Saharan Sahel zone, Defence Minister Florence Parly tweeted Friday.

    “Many close associates” of Droukdel — who commanded several affiliate jihadist groups across the lawless region — were also “neutralised”, she added.

    Born in in a poor neighbourhood of Algiers, Droukdel took part in the founding in Algeria of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), a terrorist organisation which played a big role in Alegria’s “black decade”.

    Abdelaziz Bouteflika, elected Algerian president in , managed to convince most of the armed groups in the country to lay down their weapons.

    The GSPC, ho

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