Vol 51 No 19 |
- SAHEL
- SECURITY
AQIM claimed allegiance to Usama bin Laden’s Al Qaida in 2007 when it changed its name from the Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC) a largely Algerian group driven into the Sahel by Algerian security forces...
Usama bin Laden was a welcome guest and the killing torture and arrest of opponents was rampant...
Since Al Qaida leader Usama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Detroit aeroplane bombing by the Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Nigeria has assumed new prominence...
That forced Egyptian Islamic Jihad leader Ayman al Zawahiri into Afghanistan and an alliance with Usama bin Laden that saw Al Qaida emerge in 1998...
This Western view of Gosh was based partly on his role as liaison officer to Usama bin Laden when the Al Qaida leader lived in Khartoum in the early 1990s and more generally because of his active role in Islamist politics in Sudan and the region (AC Vol 50 No 13)...
However Al Qaida's figurehead Usama bin Laden has identified Nigeria as a resource-rich country ripe for insurrection...
The flood of foreign Islamists including one Usama bin Laden put Sudan on the world map...
Hizbul Islam confines its ambitions to Somalia but Al Shabaab has international aims and openly expresses its admiration for Al Qaida and Usama bin Laden...
Defending the detainees is Muntasser al Zayat once lawyer for Egypt’s jihadist Al Gama’a al Islamiyya and for Ayman al Zawahiri Usama bin Laden’s Egyptian deputy...
The 'stripping' by Lloyds TSB dates from 1997 shortly after Usama bin Laden quit Al Qaida's Khartoum base for Afghanistan...
