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On 9-10 March, fighting in Chad's Tibesti region, near the Niger border, indicated that fighters from Algeria's biggest active Islamist militia, the Groupe Salafiste de Prédication et de Combat (GSPC, Fundamentalist Group for Preaching and Fighting) had made a dramatic move east. Abdel Razak 'Le Para', head of the GSPC's Southern Command, may have been squeezed out of his Malian and Saharan Algerian boltholes. With United States' troops 'exercising' in Mali under Washington's new Sahel initiative (AC Vol 45 Nos 4 & 5), US technology and, perhaps, firepower, may have changed the strategic balance on Algeria's southern flank....

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Chad', Niger, Abdel Razak 'Le Para', Malian, United States, Idriss Déby, t, George W. Bush, Moammar el Gadaffi, Libya, Nabil Sahwari, Hassan Hattab, Mohammed Benslim, Afghanistan, Bilal Abu Hadi, Groupe Salafiste de Prédication et de Combat, Mouvement pour la Justice et la Démocratie au Tchad., Djamaat Houmet ed Daawa es Salafyia, Taliban, El Feth, El Iman, El Thabet, Djamaat Salafyia Mouqatila, Katibat es Sunna.

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