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AQIM likely responsible for Tindouf kidnappings (Magharebia.com)
"All the evidence says that al-Qaeda carried out the kidnapping," analyst Said Ould Habib told Magharebia. "Another indicator is the relationship of al-Qaeda with the drug trafficking networks that control that area, and therefore, there was co-ordination between al-Qaeda and those bands."
"The hypothesis of co-operation between al-Qaeda and smugglers became certain following the discovery of SUV tracks after they had passed through the secret ‘Brouk’ road, which links the ‘Chkat’ region in northern Mauritania to the ‘Foum Zghid’ region in the south-west of Morocco or Western Sahara, down to the region of ‘Aricha’ in the north of Mali," analyst Mohamed Naji Ould Ahmed explained.
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