Paix et Sécurité Internationales (Dec 2013)

Kidnappings as a terrorist instrument of AQIM and the MUJAO

  • Carlos Echeverría Jesús

DOI
https://doi.org/10.25267/Paix_secur_int.2013.i1.11
Journal volume & issue
no. 1
pp. 161 – 166

Abstract

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This article updates to the Spring of 2013 the kidnappings implemented by a number of Salafist-Jihadist groups acting in the Maghreb, the Sahel, and Nigeria, providing analysis. Since then, a number of hostages have been released and other foreigners have been kidnapped, but the key-issues defining the terrorist groups’ strategies remain. The threat is always there, and their most negative consequences (payment of ransoms and release of Jihadist-Salafist prisoners, among others) do remain as well.

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