Normal News News for you!

3Dec/110

Candy, cash — al-Qaida implants itself in Africa (AP)

FILE - In this May 17, 2010 file photo, a nomad from the Tuareg tribe of the Sahara Desert brings his herd for vaccination to a team of U.S. Special Forces in the Sahara Desert handing out aid near the town of Gao in northeastern Mali. With almost no resistance, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, is implanting itself in Africa's soft tissue, choosing as its host Mali, one of the poorest nations on earth. Although AQIM's leaders are Algerian, it recruits people from Mali, including 60 to 80 Tuareg fighters, the olive-skinned nomads who live in the Sahara desert, according to a security expert who spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of the matter. (AP Photo/Alfred de Montesquiou, File)AP - The first time the members of al-Qaida emerged from the forest, they politely said hello. Then the men carrying automatic weapons asked the frightened villagers if they could please take water from the well.

Go to Source

Tagged as: , , , , , Leave a comment
Comments (0) Trackbacks (0)

No comments yet.


Leave a comment


Trackbacks are disabled.

« As US leaves Iraq, AP men recall a war in pictures (AP) Cutting deficits harder than just talking about it (AP) »

Normal New Categories