Abdelmalouk Droukdal, AQIM Leader, July 1, 2008

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Abdelmalouk Droukdal

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“[W]e seek to liberate the Islamic Maghreb from the sons of France and Spain and from all symbols of treason and employment for the outsiders, and protect it from the foreign greed and the crusader’s hegemony.”“An Interview With Abdelmalek Droukdal,” New York Times, July 1, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/world/africa/01transcript-droukdal.html.

Rhetoric Category

Anti-Christian

Anti-French

Anti-Spanish

Threat

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)

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On June 6, 2021, the Taliban attacked a complex in Ghor province, killing nine and injuring seven. That same day, the Taliban launched similar attacks on the police headquarters in Faryab province, killing 28 security forces, and in Balkh province, killing 19 and injuring 69 others.

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