Al-Qaeda’s affiliates in Africa, working side by side

Al-Qaeda's core leadership in Pakistan may be losing strength, but the terrorist network's affiliates in northern and central Africa are hardly weakening. In fact, U.S. officials say, the groups are increasingly collaborating with each other.

Three regional Islamic extremist groups – al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in North Africa, the Boko Haram in Nigeria and the al-Shabab militia in Somalia – are sharing trainers and copying each other's tactics, according to Gen. Carter F. Ham, chief of the U.S. Africa Command.

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Philip Rucker 15 Sep, 2011

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