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Guns, cigarettes & Salafi dreams: the roots of AQIM

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January 18, 2013
Guns, cigarettes & Salafi dreams: the roots of AQIM

There are facts about Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) that are reassuringly hard and verifiable. The organisation exists. It’s run by Algerian Arabs. It’s made a home from home in the north east of Mali, on Tinariwen’s native earth. It earns millions and millions of euros from kidnapping westerners. No one knows...
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MATOUB LOUNES – A lifetime dancing with death

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January 10, 2011
Matoub Lounes

Tweet “Silence is death and yet if you speak you die.  If you keep quiet you die.  So then speak and die.” Tahar Djaout “I want to speak and I don’t want to die” Matoub Lounès A grave between an olive and a cherry tree Death finally caught up with him on the lonely...
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