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al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghrib

terrorist organization
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Also known as: AQIM, GSPC, Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat, Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, al-Qāʿidah fī Bilād al-Maghrib al-Islāmī
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Arabic:
al-Qāʿidah fī Bilād al-Maghrib al-Islāmī
Original name (French; 1998–2007):
Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC; “Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat”)

al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghrib (AQIM), Algeria-based Islamic militant group, active in North Africa and the Sahel region. The organization was founded as the GSPC in 1998 by a former member of the Armed Islamic Group (Groupe Islamique Armé; GIA), an Islamic militant group that participated in Algeria’s civil war in the 1990s. The GSPC continued to fight the Algerian government but renounced the killing of Algerian civilians, a common GIA practice. The GSPC took over some GIA networks in the Sahel and the Sahara, where it generated revenue by smuggling. In 2003 international attention was focused on the GSPC ...(100 of 376 words)

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