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Al-Qaeda’s Execution of a French Hostage to Escalate Crisis in the Sahel

04 August, 2010 01:25:00 The North Africa Journal
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The recent killing, execution style, of a French hostage by Al Qaeda’s North Africa unit in Mali is expected to worsen the security situation in the Sahel and by extension North Africa and beyond. France is likely to expand its efforts to seek revenge, or bring to justice the killers of the 78 year old Michel Germaneau, in particular targeting Al Qaeda’s regional leader Abdelhamid Abuzeid.

The same Abuzeid is said to be behind the recent assassination of a dozen Algerian border patrol officers... Continue here.  Not a subscriber? click here for subscription information.

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