ALGERIA: Ignoring The Sand BanditsDecember 10, 2011: For the last six months, troops from Mauritania and Mali have been seeking out and killing al Qaeda members hiding in the Wagadou Forest (actually a thousand hectares/2,500 acres of brush and trees in a semi-desert area), which lies astride the border. Al Qaeda has apparently been there since early last year. The Wagadou Forest has become a way station for cocaine and hashish that al Qaeda escorts from Guinea-Bissau to the Mediterranean coast. This, and kidnap ransoms, is how al Qaeda finances itself in West Africa these days. […]
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