Is there a difference? Are they one and the same?
Oh, many al Qaida split off to become (or join) ISIL . . .
But I think they are two separate terrorist type entities.
This article is part of why I think the way I do.
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Algeria: Escaping the Old School
https://www.strategypage.com/qnd/algeria/articles/20170427.aspx
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Terrified Terrorists Adapt
The few Islamic terrorists still operating in Algeria no longer terrorize like they used to. That’s why more people are coming forward with information on current or past Islamic terrorist activity. This has made it impossible for organized Islamic terrorist activity to develop. ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) has tried, and so far failed. The largest Islamic terror group in the region is still AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) but this organization tries to confine its Algerian activities to fund raising (via smuggling of drugs, people and anything else that pays well). The government knows this because the heavy counter-terrorism presence on the southern borders encounters smugglers far more often than Islamic terrorists and when the captured smugglers are questioned a lot of them turn out to have AQIM business, not terrorism, connections.
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Much was skipped. Entire article is at the link.
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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