AQIM in Nigeria

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A man looks at a picture of Abdelmalek Droukdel, aka Abou Moussab Abdelwadoud, leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). The group claimed to have kidnapped a German engineer working in Nigeria.

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