[wideawake]

The MNLA and Ansar Dine fight each other.

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.

[GQuagmire]

Sounds messy. Thanks for the info

[Squantos]

Good info .... Grateful !

[Cindy]

bump and thank you for the ping Squantos.

[Cindy]

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/

http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Movement%20for%20Tawhid%20and%20Jihad%20in%20West%20Africa/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