Algeria: Feared al-Qaeda offshoot neutralized
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It's being hailed as a key success in the fight against al-Qaeda: a determined Algerian clampdown that has pulled the teeth from one of the terror network's deadliest offshoots and could be a model for elsewhere.
Six years after joining the Osama bin Laden franchise, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, known by its acronym AQIM, appears to have been neutralized in the nation where it originated and made its name, officials and experts say, corralled into a remote mountain area and reduced to occasional pinprick shootings against soldiers. (AP)
