Threat of an alliance between AQIM and "Taliban" of Nigeria
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NOUAKCHOTT - Initial contacts between Sahel jihadists and Nigeria Islamists have been established, say regional experts, who fear that an alliance of extremist threatens the most populous country.
- With some 150 million people, equally divided between Christians and Muslims, Nigeria is the scene of recurrent episodes of ethnic violence and religious connotations that have caused hundreds of deaths since the beginning of the year.
The Emir of Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the Algerian Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, began to form relationships with the violent Islamist sect Boko Haram, nicknamed "Taliban", who regularly confronts the authorities in Abuja.
Dreaming of extending southward its zone of action, the Emir, also known as Abdelmalek Droukdal, launched in early February, calls on internet for "Nigerian Muslims.
"We are ready to train your sons to handle weapons and to provide any assistance we can provide - in men, weapons, ammunition and equipment - to enable them to defend our people from Nigeria," he said, "and push the hostility of the minority of the crusaders."
And his services must be taken seriously, according to sources interviewed by AFP in Mauritania, Algeria and Europe.
In Nouakchott, a specialist judge in the file, requesting anonymity, said: "The decision to contact the Nigeria Taliban has been taken. And for the men of the AQIM in the Sahel, who move easily in the region, including Niger, which is adjacent to northern Nigeria, is not difficult. " - Ennaharonline/ M. O.
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