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Algerian jihadist group vows fealty to IS
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe jihadist group of notorious one-eyed Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar pledges allegiance to the Islamic State, according to an audio recording broadcast by private Mauritanian agency Al-Akhbar.
The Al-Murabitoun group was linked to al-Qaeda, but one of its leading members, Adnan Abu Walid Sahraoui, says in the recording that it was now aligning itself with the IS.
“The Al-Murabitoun movement pledges its allegiance to the caliph of Muslims Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, thereby banishing divisions and dissent within the nation,” says Sahraoui.
— AFP
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