By Rusty Shackleford
A couple of days ago I asked readers to send in tips about al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Ask and ye shall receive. There's some good news and some bad news, which to report first?
Let's go with glass half empty. Sean sends in word that AQIM is suspected of kidnapping two Canadian who worked for the UN, Robert Fowler & Louis Guay, and their driver in Niger. Part of a new AQIM strategy to fund its operations. Let's hope these two get out alive and without sending money to AQIM.
Source: The Jawa ReportA couple of days ago I asked readers to send in tips about al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Ask and ye shall receive. There's some good news and some bad news, which to report first?
Let's go with glass half empty. Sean sends in word that AQIM is suspected of kidnapping two Canadian who worked for the UN, Robert Fowler & Louis Guay, and their driver in Niger. Part of a new AQIM strategy to fund its operations. Let's hope these two get out alive and without sending money to AQIM.
At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages.
The killer bug, also known as the plague, swept through insurgents training at a forest camp in Algeria, North Africa. It came to light when security forces found a body by a roadside.
Now al-Qaeda chiefs fear the plague has been passed to other terror cells — or Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Read more ...
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