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Some were radicalized and formed an organization they called the Armed Islamic Group, which later became an al Qaeda affiliate.
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Some were radicalized and formed an organization they called the Armed Islamic Group, which later became an al Qaeda affiliate.
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Some were radicalized and formed an organization they called the Armed Islamic Group, which later became an al-Qaeda affiliate.
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"There is no question but that we need to take this possibility very seriously, especially in light of past attacks carried out by predecessors to AQIM such as Armed Islamic Group in France."
ScreenTalk 2009
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The group was formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), itself a spin-off of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) which was blamed for a series of bombings in France in 1995.
OPEN THREAD 2009
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NEWSWEEK has learned from Canadian police sources that Ahmed Ressam, the man arrested last week in Washington, is directly tied to a cell of a well-known Algerian extremist group, Armed Islamic Group (GIA).
Americans On Alert 2008
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Through six years of conflict, the Armed Islamic Group has used the Muslim holy month as a pretext to increase its killing.
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Some reports linked Ressam to Osama bin Laden, America's most-wanted terrorist, and to notorious guerrillas of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in Algeria.
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It is more closely identified with the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (more commonly known by its French acronym GIA), a radical Islamic group whose principal goal is to overthrow the military government in Algiers.
Hard To Kill 2007
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Hattab, 40, founded the GSPC almost a decade ago at the instigation of Osama Bin Laden, and his movement was soon put on Washington's blacklist of terrorist organisations, but he had broken away from the radical Armed Islamic Group when it massacred civilians as well as targetting security forces.
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