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Al Qaeda in the Maghreb
Who are Al Qaeda in the Maghreb - and how powerful are they?
Ten days ago a group calling themselves Al Qaeda in the Maghreb announced that they'd killed a British hostage in Mali. They said they'd done it because the British government had refused to release a radical cleric from jail. But who are this group, what are their roots, and what are their ultimate aims? Wietske Burema investigates
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Wed 10 Jun 2009
04:41GMT
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