CIAO DATE: 06/2011
May 2011
The Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Since its reinvention as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) in 2007, the Algerian Salafist Group for Predication and Combat (GSPC) has sought and managed to expand its regional domain of action throughout North Africa, the Sahel, and West Africa, and in targeting France has pursued a strategy of steady internationalization of its threat.
Resource link: The Many Faces of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb [PDF] - 532K