Talk:Al-Qaeda group in the Maghreb

There is a lot of unsupported speculation about GSPC ties to various international groups (ie Al Qaeda) here; I suspect a lot of it is Algerian security services disinformation. I think we should get rid of a lot of the obvious disinformation.


 * Brilliant. Now that the group itself calls itself al-Qaeda, has your learned opinion changed?

There's now a lot more info in terms of the group's history, the timeline and a lot more links to various points of view. I've tried to rewrite the section on the group's situation in the international context to include much more detail and rebuttals of or counterarguments to some of the claims. Evidently, a whole lot more can be said, especially about more recent developments as well as about increased American interest in the region - and the consueqences of that involvement. I've removed the paragraph with the alleged link to Bensakhria as I could not find any evidence whatsoever to support that particular claim (except that Bill Kristol and some other neocons say so).

Incompetence
Before writing about increased American interest in the region, at least learn the real name of this group.

LDH 09:09, 22 April 2007 (UTC)