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11 Feb 2010, 2:36 pm
Algerian police allegedly suspected Mohamed Haider of being affiliated with the anti-government terrorist group GIA, or Armed Islamic Group, which had unsuccessfully tried to recruit him. [read post]
13 Nov 2017, 6:00 am
The group has launched suicide bombings and small arms attacks against Afghan security forces and civilians, including the August 2017 bombings in Kabul and the western city of Herat. [read post]
13 Dec 2015, 7:21 am
Between July and October 1995, members affiliated with the Algerian Groupe Armé Islamique (Armed Islamic Group, GIA) orchestrated a series of bombings in Paris and nearby cities, including several that were foiled by French services or failed to go off, killing 8 people and injuring over 200. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 5:39 am
Asma Guenifi, whose brother Hichem was killed by the Armed Islamic Group in 1994 when he was only 20, wrote recently in her 2011 book Je ne pardonne pas aux assassins de mon frère ("I do not forgive my brother’s killers") how devastated Algerians like her were by international sympathy with the FIS.Of course, the cancellation of the second round of the elections, this better of two bad outcomes, was itself fraught with suffering. 200,000… [read post]
3 Aug 2007, 12:55 pm
"Trapped by the dual threat of armed domestic groups and a government that often brutalizes suspected Islamists, Mr. [read post]
27 Sep 2016, 9:50 am
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he confronted Vice President Joe Biden in New York last week about U.S. forces arming Kurdish groups in Kobane, and a government spokesman in Ankara said that Turkish forces would not participate in the Raqqa operation if Kurdish groups were also involved. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 9:34 pm
I noted that Belmokhtar had been part of the Algerian jihadist groups GIA and GSPC, that GSPC later affiliated with al Qaeda to become AQIM), and that Belmokhtar eventually led a splinter group away from AQIM but seemed to maintain his own ties directly to al Qaeda’s core leadership. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 9:34 pm
I noted that Belmokhtar had been part of the Algerian jihadist groups GIA and GSPC, that GSPC later affiliated with al Qaeda to become AQIM), and that Belmokhtar eventually led a splinter group away from AQIM but seemed to maintain his own ties directly to al Qaeda’s core leadership. [read post]
3 Jul 2022, 7:01 am
Since 9/11, only five jihadi groups have been taken off the terrorism list, with two of these delistings happening just earlier this year: the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in October 2010, the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (MICG) in May 2013, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) in December 2015, and most recently the Egyptian Gama’a al-Islamiyya (GI) and the Palestinian Majlis Shura al-Mujahidin fi… [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 9:04 am
However, the dissenting judge noted that Judge Kessler had also “credited” a separate claim by Mohammed: that “he will be targeted by non-governmental actors — armed Islamic militants unaffiliated with the Algerian government” — if he is sent to Algeria. [read post]
16 Aug 2015, 7:53 am
During the 1990s, the Algerian government directly negotiated with the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), offering amnesty and facilitating defections. [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 1:14 pm
Following the assault Friday on Mali’s Radisson Blu Hotel which left at least 20 dead, the New York Times tells us that al Mourabitoun, “a jihadist group loyal to Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an Algerian operative for Al Qaeda," claimed responsibility for the attack. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 6:00 am
On November 12th, the self-styled caliph of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, accepted the oath of the IYSC, urging Libyans (along with Algerians, Tunisians, and Moroccans) to “fight the secularists. [read post]
2 Dec 2015, 12:22 pm
” The Islamic State’s claim to statehood distinguish it from other competing militant groups and has long been a prominent feature in attracting recruits. [read post]
22 Jan 2011, 11:48 am
However, it must also be noted that as of now in Algeria there is little to no popular support for AQIM, an organization descended from the remains of the armed groups that brutalized the population in the 1990s. [read post]
13 Jul 2014, 7:00 am
For example, the Algerian terrorist group once known as the “Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat” (GSPC) changed its name to “Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb” (AQIM) when it was on the verge of annihilation by the Algerian state, thus enabling the group to branch out beyond the inhospitable environment of Algeria and revive its fortunes. [read post]
12 Aug 2016, 12:09 pm
While Sunni extremism has unified a broad coalition of groups—including Kurdish peshmerga, Iraqi armed forces, Shiite militias, and some moderate Sunni groups—analysts warn that deep-seated disagreements over the distribution of power, money, and territory have not been resolved. [read post]
11 Sep 2008, 5:16 am
He was reportedly attacked by two men with links to Algerian armed groups on the streets of Paris in June. [read post]
12 Feb 2011, 9:32 pm
Cherifa Khaddar, the redoubtable human rights activist and president of Djazairouna, an association of the victims of the fundamentalist terrorism of the 1990s, whose brother and sister were brutally murdered in 1996 by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), was arrested twice. [read post]
16 Feb 2014, 7:00 am
The Algeria example is instructive: Al Qaeda’s relationship with the notorious Armed Islamic Group (GIA) also ended rancorously at a time (the 1990s) when Algeria was arguably the most promising possibility for an “Islamic” state, and it ended for strikingly similar reasons. [read post]
