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Al Qaeda's Widening North African Jihad Confounds Foes -- Reuters
(Reuters) - Inquiries into the bloody assault on an Algerian gas plant are uncovering increasing evidence of contacts between the assailants and the jihadis involved in killing the U.S. ambassador to Libya nearly a year ago.
The extent of the contacts between the militants is still unclear and nobody is sure there was a direct link between the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the carnage at In Amenas, where 39 foreign hostages were killed in January.
But the findings, according to three sources with separate knowledge of U.S. investigations, shed some light on the connections between Al Qaeda affiliates stretching ever further across North and West Africa.
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My Comment: I am not surprised by Al Qaeda's growth in North Africa. Failed states. Poverty. Islamic militancy. Access to weaponry. Disaffected and frustrated men. A perfect place for Al Qaeda. But what confounds me is reading stories like this one .... Britain's foreign aid has fallen into hands of al-Qaeda, DfiD admits. This I do not understand.
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