Abu Abdul Ilah Ahmed, Head of AQIM Media, April 15, 2013

Author
Abu Abdul Ilah Ahmad
Name of Author
Abu Abdul Ilah Ahmed
Body

“Chinguetti the land of knowledge and wisdom has a special status in our hearts and its sons today are in the first ranks – as their ancestors were – to confront the French crusade on Muslim Mali...”Casey Britton, “AQIM: Answers to Open Meeting with Sheikh Abu Abdul Ilah Ahmad,” WorldAnalysis.net, April 19, 2013, http://worldanalysis.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2197.

Rhetoric Category
Anti-Christian
Anti-French
Threat
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)

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