<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - islamic-maghreb</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/islamic-maghreb</link><description>Newsvine - islamic-maghreb</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 14:48:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:12:55 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Scathing Letter to Troublesome Mokhtar Belmokhtar Reveals Inner Workings of Al-Qaeda</title>
<description><![CDATA[
After years of attempts at discipline, the leaders of al-Qaeda's North African branch sent the final letter to Belmokhtar, their most difficult employee.
In page after scathing page, they described how he didn't answer his phone when they called, failed to turn in his expense &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[JCAtom]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[JCAtom]]></source><link>http://jcatom.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/29/18585530-scathing-letter-to-troublesome-mokhtar-belmokhtar-reveals-inner-workings-of-al-qaeda</link><guid>http://jcatom.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/29/18585530-scathing-letter-to-troublesome-mokhtar-belmokhtar-reveals-inner-workings-of-al-qaeda</guid><category>afghanistan</category><category>france</category><category>britain</category><category>ap</category><category>pakistan</category><category>europe</category><category>terror</category><category>terrorism</category><category>paris</category><category>pentagon</category><category>uranium</category><category>terrorist</category><category>bombing</category><category>mine</category><category>associated-press</category><category>kidnapping</category><category>osama-bin-laden</category><category>abu-abbas</category><category>le-monde</category><category>world-news</category><category>eiffel-tower</category><category>air-france</category><category>niger</category><category>algeria</category><category>9-11</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>dod</category><category>us-congress</category><category>mali</category><category>hijack</category><category>ayman-al-zawahri</category><category>department-of-defense</category><category>sahara</category><category>jihadist</category><category>twin-towers</category><category>gspc</category><category>salafist-group-for-preaching-and-combat</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>aqim</category><category>khorasan</category><category>robert-fowler</category><category>ain-amenas</category><category>mokhtar-belmokhtar</category><category>abou-zeid</category><category>rudolph-atallah</category><category>abdelmalek-droukdel</category><category>the-masked-brigade</category><category>those-who-sign-in-blood</category><category>movement-for-oneness-and-jihad-in-west-africa</category><category>arlit</category><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 14:46:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=jcatom8A884713-6C41-8FB7-682E-3AD1CDFB2693.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="251" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=jcatom8A884713-6C41-8FB7-682E-3AD1CDFB2693.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Correction: Mali-Election story</title>
<description><![CDATA[In a story April 5, The Associated Press reported erroneously that al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb denied in a statement France's claim of having killed senior commander Abou Zeid. AQIM did not name Abou Zeid as the commander they were discussing. Washington-based SITE Intelligence said it seemed the group was referring to the commander as Abou Zeid in the English-language translation of the AQIM statement.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/05/17619878-correction-mali-election-story</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/05/17619878-correction-mali-election-story</guid><category>election</category><category>associated-press</category><category>world-news</category><category>mali</category><category>af</category><category>laurent-fabius</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>abou-zeid</category><category>washington-based-site-intelligence</category><pubDate>Fri, 5 Apr 2013 20:38:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Top al-Qaida-linked leaders in northern Africa</title>
<description><![CDATA[The killing of an al-Qaida commander in Mali by French-led troops hurts the terrorist group and may shift the power balance among the region's extremists. Here is a look at leaders of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and other radical groups operating in northwest Africa, as portrayed in documents and by experts:]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/23/17432662-top-al-qaida-linked-leaders-in-northern-africa</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/23/17432662-top-al-qaida-linked-leaders-in-northern-africa</guid><category>leaders</category><category>al-qaida</category><category>qaida</category><category>us-news</category><category>mali</category><category>af</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:18:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Chad is now regional superpower in Mali conflict </title>
<description><![CDATA[
Chad, which between 2005 and 2010 was wrought with its own civil war, has shown few signs of its troubled past since joining the French-led offensive in Mali.
While ECOWAS -- to which Chad does not belong -- is slowly despatching 6,000 troops to Mali, Chad was quick to respond&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[BXURZ]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[BXURZ]]></source><link>http://bxurz.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/05/17191428-chad-is-now-regional-superpower-in-mali-conflict</link><guid>http://bxurz.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/05/17191428-chad-is-now-regional-superpower-in-mali-conflict</guid><category>world-news</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>west-africans</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>regional-power</category><category>economic-community</category><category>mokhtar-belmokhtar</category><category>since-france</category><category>sahel-saharan-states</category><category>abdelhamid-abou-zeid</category><category>mali-civiil-war</category><category>african-states</category><pubDate>Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:42:58 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bxurz016A8FF9-1D54-9CD3-006F-53B4AC0B73CB.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="10" width="310" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bxurz016A8FF9-1D54-9CD3-006F-53B4AC0B73CB.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="4" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Chadian troops secure Kidal as global players meet on Mali </title>
<description><![CDATA[
The French defence ministry said 1,800 Chadian troops had entered  Kidal to &ldquo;secure&rdquo; the Saharan outpost, after days of air strikes in the  surrounding mountains where extremist insurgents are believed to be  hiding in hillside caves.
&ldquo;The French are controll&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[BXURZ]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[BXURZ]]></source><link>http://bxurz.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/15/16970457-chadian-troops-secure-kidal-as-global-players-meet-on-mali</link><guid>http://bxurz.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/15/16970457-chadian-troops-secure-kidal-as-global-players-meet-on-mali</guid><category>united-nations</category><category>west-african</category><category>world-news</category><category>african-union</category><category>bamako</category><category>niger-river</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>afp-photo-gao</category><category>french-action-in-mali</category><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:41:24 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bxurz50D41F8A-848F-D6B9-B514-E4CDD5006102.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="209" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bxurz50D41F8A-848F-D6B9-B514-E4CDD5006102.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="63" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>The strategy of tension | </title>
<description><![CDATA[It is too obvious that Western economic interests in Mali are not enough  to explain France&rsquo;s intervention there. Similarly, it is clear that  islamism is not enough to explain vast terrorist action conducted  simultaneously at an Algerian gas site. For Manlio Dinucci, this&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[mentorian]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[mentorian]]></source><link>http://mentorian.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/25/16697632-the-strategy-of-tension</link><guid>http://mentorian.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/25/16697632-the-strategy-of-tension</guid><category>politics</category><category>north-african</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>voltaire-network</category><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:29:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mentorian64DBB427-3928-8C30-4882-AA0707EAA667.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=mentorian64DBB427-3928-8C30-4882-AA0707EAA667.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Militarized Politics at their Worst: Origins of the Mali Conflict</title>
<description><![CDATA[
When fundamentalist rebel forces overran the central Malian city of  Konna on January 11, they sent shock-waves not only through Mali itself  but through the international community as well. With Konna fallen, the  path to the last remaining government-controlled military base &nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Contrarian]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[The Contrarian]]></source><link>http://the-contrarian.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/23/16664892-militarized-politics-at-their-worst-origins-of-the-mali-conflict</link><guid>http://the-contrarian.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/23/16664892-militarized-politics-at-their-worst-origins-of-the-mali-conflict</guid><category>war</category><category>africa</category><category>conflict</category><category>world-news</category><category>burkina-faso</category><category>islamism</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>blaise-compaor</category><category>mali-france</category><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:02:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=the-contrarian84AAE6A7-5A96-2774-ECE1-B77BA1A99021.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="199" width="300" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=the-contrarian84AAE6A7-5A96-2774-ECE1-B77BA1A99021.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain"></media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Mali Islamist extremists destroy historic mausoleums in Timbuktu | Fox News</title>
<description><![CDATA[Where ever the Muslim go it&nbsp;is their&nbsp;duty to take control no matter how many they maim they can never be the blame. Until this world grows a pair the Muslim will never be fair.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[He Lives]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[He Lives]]></source><link>http://he-lives.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/23/16107496-mali-islamist-extremists-destroy-historic-mausoleums-in-timbuktu-fox-news</link><guid>http://he-lives.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/23/16107496-mali-islamist-extremists-destroy-historic-mausoleums-in-timbuktu-fox-news</guid><category>religion</category><category>journal-editorial-report</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>fncu-fox-around</category><category>happening-now-huckabee-justice</category><category>newsletters-this</category><category>friends-fox</category><category>large-greta-hannity</category><category>partridge-in</category><category>ex-marine-jon-hammar</category><pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:42:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Congress to investigate Benghazi 'talking points'</title>
<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers want to know who had a hand in creating the Obama administration's now-discredited "talking points" about the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, and why a final draft omitted the CIA's early conclusion that terrorists were involved.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anne Flaherty]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Anne Flaherty]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/15/15194880-congress-to-investigate-benghazi-talking-points</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/15/15194880-congress-to-investigate-benghazi-talking-points</guid><category>us</category><category>libya</category><category>attack</category><category>politics</category><category>senate-intelligence-committee</category><category>david-petraeus</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>susan-rice</category><category>ambassador-susan-rice</category><category>libya-attack</category><pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:50:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fde3f968-bf2d-4dcd-8f7c-d9ff965312ef.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="285" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fde3f968-bf2d-4dcd-8f7c-d9ff965312ef.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., left, with Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., right, speaks during a media availability after a closed-door oversight hearing of the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, looking into the circumstances surrounding the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1186dae4-eb73-4af2-86c3-029a28b18e46.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="262" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1186dae4-eb73-4af2-86c3-029a28b18e46.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A Capitol Hill Police officer guards a staircase near the hearing room where former CIA Director David Petraeus is testifing before the House Intelligence committee on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Libya, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ee015b4f-e510-48b2-9bcd-b4b46624ea85.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="266" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=ee015b4f-e510-48b2-9bcd-b4b46624ea85.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Locked doors secure the hallway outside the hearing room where former CIA Director David Petraeus is testifing before the House Intelligence committee on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Libya, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0a28c06a-68e7-4a0f-9fe3-6bb785717038.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="502" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0a28c06a-68e7-4a0f-9fe3-6bb785717038.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="151" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., walks to the hearing room where former CIA Director David Petraeus will testify before the House Intelligence committee on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Libya on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f143e27f-ff57-49f8-b2b7-3798f91ccd87.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f143e27f-ff57-49f8-b2b7-3798f91ccd87.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A folding room divider blocks a door down a corridor on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, where the Senate Intelligence Committee is holding a hearing where former CIA Director David Petraeus is testifying on the Benghazi, Libya, terrorist attack against the U.S. consulate on the Sept. 11 attack in Libya. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c2933c5b-8b11-4ced-8c5b-0d6ef41ee89c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="450" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c2933c5b-8b11-4ced-8c5b-0d6ef41ee89c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="135" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus, right, followed by security agents, enters his home in Arlington, Va., Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, after testifying on Capitol Hill before closed-door sessions of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees regarding the Sept. 11, 2012 attack of the US embassy in Libya. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=639a1207-48a8-4087-a73f-d243b34281d9.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="269" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=639a1207-48a8-4087-a73f-d243b34281d9.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.  is surrounded by reporters after speaking, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, following a committee's closed-door hearing where former CIA Director David Petraeus testified on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Libya. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2ff2328a-a7c8-40f6-a322-68a7307a0e09.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="266" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2ff2328a-a7c8-40f6-a322-68a7307a0e09.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012 following the committee's closed-door hearing where  former CIA Director David Petraeus testified on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Libya. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0748246b-52e3-49f4-b88d-8efe2cbd64e5.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0748246b-52e3-49f4-b88d-8efe2cbd64e5.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A vehicle in a motorcade carrying former CIA Director David Petraeus leaves Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, after Petraeus testified before closed-door sessions of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5b7bc88f-c57e-464c-afb5-843dc6d6e589.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="337" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5b7bc88f-c57e-464c-afb5-843dc6d6e589.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="182" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, following a closed-door hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee where former CIA Director David Petraeus testified on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Libya. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=baf9d57c-2284-43bf-931d-f61196a0f195.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="286" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=baf9d57c-2284-43bf-931d-f61196a0f195.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="86" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This June 7, 2012 file photo shows U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice listening during a news conference at the UN. Republican senators' angry criticism of Rice over her initial account of the deadly Sept. 11 attack in Libya smacks of sexism and racism, a dozen female members of the House said Friday.  (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>France to send drones to Mali region - World - CBC News</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phyllis-3324111]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Phyllis-3324111]]></source><link>http://phyllis3324111.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/28/14759077-france-to-send-drones-to-mali-region-world-cbc-news</link><guid>http://phyllis3324111.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/28/14759077-france-to-send-drones-to-mali-region-world-cbc-news</guid><category>military</category><category>anti-war</category><category>uk-news</category><category>mali</category><category>counterterrorism</category><category>eurovine</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>drone-strikes</category><category>al-qaeda-in-the-islamic-maghreb</category><category>spare-islam</category><category>commentid-uk-news</category><category>france-us-world-news</category><category>us-world-news-and-view</category><category>liberation-forces</category><category>ordinary-malians</category><category>u-s-assistant-secretary-of-state-for-african-affairs-johnnie-carson</category><category>african-troops</category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:49:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>4 French hostages appeal for their release</title>
<description><![CDATA[In a video released Saturday by the private Mauritanian news website SAHARAMEDIAS, four French hostages held for nearly two years urge France's President François Hollande to negotiate for their release with their captors, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/08/13747904-4-french-hostages-appeal-for-their-release</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/08/13747904-4-french-hostages-appeal-for-their-release</guid><category>hostages</category><category>world-news</category><category>mauritania</category><category>af</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>french-hostages</category><pubDate>Sat, 8 Sep 2012 15:56:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Afghans, Pakistanis training Islamists in Mali: Niger - World - DNA</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phyllis-3324111]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Phyllis-3324111]]></source><link>http://phyllis3324111.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/07/12110328-afghans-pakistanis-training-islamists-in-mali-niger-world-dna</link><guid>http://phyllis3324111.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/07/12110328-afghans-pakistanis-training-islamists-in-mali-niger-world-dna</guid><category>niger</category><category>anti-war</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>uk-news</category><category>mali</category><category>counterterrorism</category><category>eurovine</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>historical-vine</category><category>mahamadou-issoufou</category><category>share-tweet</category><category>afghanistan-pakistan-world-news</category><category>islamist-training</category><category>muammar-gaddafi39-s</category><pubDate>Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:14:43 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Algeria attack claimed by al-Qaida offshoot</title>
<description><![CDATA[Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility Sunday for the attack on a military academy in Algeria that killed at least 18 people including 16 officers in training.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/26/7490096-algeria-attack-claimed-by-al-qaida-offshoot</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/26/7490096-algeria-attack-claimed-by-al-qaida-offshoot</guid><category>violence</category><category>world-news</category><category>algeria</category><category>ml</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:26:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Al-Qaida in North Africa seeks Arab Spring jihad</title>
<description><![CDATA[Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb wants to put its footprint on the Arab Spring now that violence is fueling the uprisings, and in a two-part video is trying to lure new followers for revolt by jihad.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elaine Ganley]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Elaine Ganley]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/15/7376281-al-qaida-in-north-africa-seeks-arab-spring-jihad</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/08/15/7376281-al-qaida-in-north-africa-seeks-arab-spring-jihad</guid><category>eu</category><category>al-qaida</category><category>qaida</category><category>world-news</category><category>spring</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>arab-spring</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:51:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/d7380c89-eb85-4a23-b119-8a87d274e97b.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="379" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/d7380c89-eb85-4a23-b119-8a87d274e97b.jpg" width="120" height="114" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this May 12, 2010 file photo, Malian troops and soldiers from other African countries perform a war dance during a training exercise with the U.S. Special Forces in the Sahara Desert near the town of Gao in northeastern Mali.  Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb wants to put its footprint on the Arab Spring now that violence is fueling the uprisings, and in a two-part video is trying to lure in new followers for revolt by jihad. (AP Photo / Alfred de Montesquiou, FILE)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a9a76287-301e-4062-bf9c-a757823793cd.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="251" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a9a76287-301e-4062-bf9c-a757823793cd.jpg" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE -  In this May 12, 2010 file photo, a  U.S. Special Forces soldier fires a Russian-made &quot;Dushka&quot; heavy machine gun off a Malian army truck in Kati, Mali, during a joint training exercise with a unit of elite Malian troops in the Sahara Desert near the town of Gao in northeastern Mali. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb wants to put its footprint on the Arab Spring now that violence is fueling the uprisings, and in a two-part video is trying to lure in new followers for revolt by jihad. (AP Photo/Alfred de Montesquiou)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/8a95e9e9-5565-4c47-8eaf-5e1780f38f22.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/8a95e9e9-5565-4c47-8eaf-5e1780f38f22.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this May 12, 2010 file photo, a U.S. Special Forces soldier trains troops from Senegal combat techniques in Kati, Mali, during a joint training exercise with units from several African armies in the Sahara Desert near the town of Gao in northeastern Mali. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb wants to put its footprint on the Arab Spring now that violence is fueling the uprisings, and in a two-part video is trying to lure in new followers for revolt by jihad.(AP Photo/Alfred de Montesquiou, FILE)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Over Dozen Killed in Explosion in Morocco</title>
<description><![CDATA[A massive explosion ripped through a cafe popular among foreign tourists in the Moroccan city of Marrakech on Thursday, killing 14 people and wounding 20 in what the government called a criminal act.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[John S.-1381946]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[John S.-1381946]]></source><link>http://js10131979.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/28/6550649-over-dozen-killed-in-explosion-in-morocco</link><guid>http://js10131979.newsvine.com/_news/2011/04/28/6550649-over-dozen-killed-in-explosion-in-morocco</guid><category>muslim</category><category>morocco</category><category>terrorism</category><category>bomb</category><category>islam</category><category>world-news</category><category>islamic</category><category>jihad</category><category>islamist</category><category>north-africa</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>holy-war</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:24:04 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution: progress or regression? - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine</title>
<description><![CDATA[Tunisia Grows Up
Here's hoping the Jasmine Revolution improves upon the legacy of Habib Bourguiba, the nation's first president.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Monday, Jan.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[King Dave]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[King Dave]]></source><link>http://king-dave.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/18/5869537-tunisias-jasmine-revolution-progress-or-regression-by-christopher-hitchens-slate-magazine</link><guid>http://king-dave.newsvine.com/_news/2011/01/18/5869537-tunisias-jasmine-revolution-progress-or-regression-by-christopher-hitchens-slate-magazine</guid><category>new-york-times</category><category>world-news</category><category>christopher-hitchens</category><category>saul-bellow</category><category>edward-said</category><category>tunisian-islamist</category><category>el-ghriba</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>ben-ali</category><category>muammar-qaddafi</category><category>visiting-tunisia</category><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:21:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>CERN physicist top suspect in nuclear terror plot</title>
<description><![CDATA[The scientist suspected of plotting terrorist attacks on nuclear sites in France is a brilliant, internationally known physicist who has worked on research projects in Britain and the US, the Independent has reported.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ahsan-Waheed]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ahsan-Waheed]]></source><link>http://pakistan-pal.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/14/3380948-cern-physicist-top-suspect-in-nuclear-terror-plot</link><guid>http://pakistan-pal.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/14/3380948-cern-physicist-top-suspect-in-nuclear-terror-plot</guid><category>afghanistan</category><category>france</category><category>world-news</category><category>nuclear-terror</category><category>extremists</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>cern</category><category>terrorist-attacks</category><category>vienne</category><category>lahore</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>hadron-collider</category><category>aqim</category><category>swiss-french-border</category><category>hicheur</category><category>dcri</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:08:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Cern physicist admits links with al-Qaida</title>
<description><![CDATA[Frenchman of Algerian origin corresponded online with a contact in north Africa's al-Qaida branch]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Matthews-007]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Greg Matthews-007]]></source><link>http://gregmatthews007.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/13/3376249-cern-physicist-admits-links-with-al-qaida</link><guid>http://gregmatthews007.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/13/3376249-cern-physicist-admits-links-with-al-qaida</guid><category>switzerland</category><category>paris</category><category>al-qaida</category><category>world-news</category><category>algerian</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>terror-attacks</category><category>vienne</category><category>large-hadron-collider</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>french-physicist</category><category>swiss-french-border</category><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:03:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>BBC NEWS | Europe | 'Al-Qaeda-link' Cern worker held</title>
<description><![CDATA[France has arrested a researcher at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) for suspected links with al-Qaeda, officials have said.

The 32-year-old man of Algerian descent was one of two brothers detained in the south-east town of Vienne on Thursday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[bigsaf]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[bigsaf]]></source><link>http://bigsaf.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/09/3366833-bbc-news-europe-al-qaeda-link-cern-worker-held</link><guid>http://bigsaf.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/09/3366833-bbc-news-europe-al-qaeda-link-cern-worker-held</guid><category>france</category><category>europe</category><category>terrorism</category><category>bbc</category><category>terrorist</category><category>militants</category><category>osama-bin-laden</category><category>world-news</category><category>algerian</category><category>islamic</category><category>embassy</category><category>french</category><category>algeria</category><category>islamist</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>mauritania</category><category>big-bang</category><category>cern</category><category>physicist</category><category>particle-collider</category><category>islamist-militants</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>salafist</category><category>hadron-collider</category><pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 20:08:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) or L'Organisation Al-Qaïda au Maghreb Islamique (Formerly Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat or Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat) </title>
<description><![CDATA[Terrorist activity in North Africa has been reinvigorated in the last few years by a local Algerian Islamist group turned pan-Maghreb jihadi organization: al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).A Sunni group that previously called itself the Salafist Group for Preaching and Comba&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Navigator]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Navigator]]></source><link>http://navigator.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/06/1724729-al-qaeda-in-the-islamic-maghreb-aqim-or-lorganisation-al-qada-au-maghreb-islamique-formerly-salafist-group-for-preaching-and-combat-or-groupe-salafiste-pour-la-prdication-et-le-combat</link><guid>http://navigator.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/06/1724729-al-qaeda-in-the-islamic-maghreb-aqim-or-lorganisation-al-qada-au-maghreb-islamique-formerly-salafist-group-for-preaching-and-combat-or-groupe-salafiste-pour-la-prdication-et-le-combat</guid><category>iraq</category><category>afghanistan</category><category>terrorism</category><category>africa</category><category>osama-bin-laden</category><category>world-news</category><category>jihad</category><category>algeria</category><category>north-africa</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>ayman-al-zawahiri</category><category>counterterrorism</category><category>gia</category><category>armed-islamic-group</category><category>salafist-group-for-preaching-and-combat</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>al-qaeda-franchise</category><category>islamism-in-algeria</category><pubDate>Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:15:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>How much of a threat is Al Qaeda in North Africa? </title>
<description><![CDATA[A report published in The New York Times on Tuesday is likely to fuel concerns that North Africa is emerging as a major new front in the US-led global war on terror.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Navigator]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Navigator]]></source><link>http://navigator.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/02/1632702-how-much-of-a-threat-is-al-qaeda-in-north-africa</link><guid>http://navigator.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/02/1632702-how-much-of-a-threat-is-al-qaeda-in-north-africa</guid><category>pakistan</category><category>africa</category><category>world-news</category><category>jihad</category><category>algeria</category><category>islamic-militants</category><category>global-jihad</category><category>alqeda</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><category>u-s-administration</category><category>terror-franchise</category><pubDate>Wed, 2 Jul 2008 16:14:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Algerian Intell: &quot;Al-Qaeda 'recruited over fifty under-16 y/o kids from Dec-April' - Internet partly to blame</title>
<description><![CDATA[The al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb between December and April recruited over 50 children aged under 16, the pan-Arab al-Hayat newspaper reported on Friday, quoting Algerian intelligence sources.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[krishna-167929]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[krishna-167929]]></source><link>http://krishna109.newsvine.com/_news/2007/09/25/983110-algerian-intell-al-qaeda-recruited-over-fifty-under-16-yo-kids-from-dec-april-internet-partly-to-blame</link><guid>http://krishna109.newsvine.com/_news/2007/09/25/983110-algerian-intell-al-qaeda-recruited-over-fifty-under-16-yo-kids-from-dec-april-internet-partly-to-blame</guid><category>iraq</category><category>middle-east</category><category>terrorism</category><category>children</category><category>kids</category><category>world-news</category><category>jihad</category><category>algeria</category><category>al-qaeda</category><category>islamic-extremism</category><category>dar-al-islam</category><category>internet-cafes</category><category>islamic-maghreb</category><pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:57:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>