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Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb

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dc.creator Gregory A. Smith
dc.date 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.identifier 1944-0464
dc.identifier 1944-0472
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/edac625046024126bce602e5d22d442b
dc.description This paper is organized into four chapters that focus on the terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). The four chapters examine different facets of the collective environment that have allowed AQIM to succeed and even thrive at times. The first chapter begins with Algeria’s war of independence with the French. The second chapter focuses on the nomadic Tuareg people. It seeks to show how the Tuaregs were deprived by French occupiers and how European colonization cost the Tuaregs access to vital trade routes used for centuries. The third chapter will very briefly examine Algeria’s civil war and the emergence of modern terrorist groups. The fourth chapter will discuss the post-9/11 world in terms of “shaping operations” for the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT ) and how this caused an evolution in terrorism as a reaction to actual or perceived American hegemonic ambitions.This paper is not a compendium of every event or in any way a complete history of the region. It is intended to reinforce the author’s notion of outlying antecedents that normally coalesce around a central issue and how the addition of a political agenda can lead these antecedents toward a fusion point. When the fusion point is met, ethno-nationalist ambitions are catapulted down the road of terrorism and the fundamental message is lost in the debris of another attack. Such is the story of AQIM…
dc.language English
dc.publisher Henley-Putnam University
dc.relation http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1049&context=jss
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1944-0464
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1944-0472
dc.source Journal of Strategic Security, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 53-72 (2009)
dc.subject Africa
dc.subject Al-Qaida
dc.subject Ethnic conflict
dc.subject History
dc.subject Irregular warfare
dc.subject Terrorism / counterterrorism
dc.subject Military Science
dc.subject U
dc.subject DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.title Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb
dc.type article


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