Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Shadow of Terror over The Sahel, from 2007, Paperback/Al J. Venter

Insurgencies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere-the majority linked to al Qaeda-are in the news on an almost daily basis. But very little surfaces about a festering insurgency that has been on the go for six years in West Africa under the acronym of AQIM, or al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb