He even trotted out the line that “no one put a gun to
In the case of AQIM in the Sahara Sahel, now known as al Qaeda in the Sahel (AQIS) or the ‘Sahara Emirate’ (‘Imarat Essahra’), it is difficult to distinguish between the latter two. Of the AQIS’s alleged leaders, Abdelhamid abou Zad, Yahia Djouadi (and their many aliases) and Mokhtar ben Mokhtar (MBM) all have linkages…