Ansar Dine and AQIM are provisionally allied.
MUJWA and AQIM fight each other sometimes and have a truce sometimes.
MUJWA and Ansar Dine have connections to one another and seem to work together sometimes.
What seems to happen is that when one of these groups conquer a town, they will fight anyone else who tries to take it, but they will sometimes ally themselves with another group that is fighting the government over a disputed territory.
They are all enemies of the government.
Sounds messy. Thanks for the info
Good info .... Grateful !
bump and thank you for the ping Squantos.
ADDING to post no. 43:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Al%20Qaeda/common/
http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Ansar%20Dine/common/
http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Al%20Qaeda%20in%20the%20Arabian%20Peninsula/common/
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/01/west_african_jihadis.php
“West African jihadist group forms 4 ‘battalions,’ names 3 after al Qaeda leaders”
By BILL ROGGIO
January 9, 2013