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Guardian: New Tuareg rebel group goes on the offensive in north-east Mali
[The Guardian] - Motorised columns were deployed, in particular at Ti-n-Zaouatene, on the Algerian border, to the north of Adrar des Ifoghas, a range of hills where an al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) unit is based, led by Abdelhamid Abou Zeid (aka Mohamed Ghdir)
Abducted Algerian official expected to be freed: officials
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[Africasia] - They were protesting an Algerian court's handing a life sentence in absentia to Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, one of the most radical leaders of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and implicated in the kidnappings of some 30 Westerners in
Algeria sentences Qaeda leader to life in prison in absentia
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[Africasia] - After a one-day trial, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid "was sentenced to life in prison while five members of his family were sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment each for forming an armed international group", lawyer Omar Boukadouss told AFP.
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