Islamic terrorism in North Africa

After the French intervention in Mali , which has forced the fundamentalist terrorists belonging to Al Qaeda a strategic retreat , the geography of terror in North Africa is constantly evolving . The main destinations for the escape of members of the terrorist group were the Niger and Libya. The most worrying situation is just made ​​up of the country of Libya, who after the fall of Gaddafi has not yet reached its own stability and acceptable safety standards , as evidenced by the recent raid by U.S. special forces against a leading member of the Islamic terror network in refugee Libya. The protests of the government in Tripoli have been an act due to international practice, but serve only to confirm the permeability of the country to terrorist organizations that find refuge . The highest concentration of jihadists expelled from Mali is located in the southern region of the country of Libya, Fezzan , which has an area the size of France, but with only half a million inhabitants , and this low population density promotes operational activities of terrorists, especially for self-financing , which focuses mainly on drug trafficking and human trafficking. The Libyan authorities , still in the organization , they can not impose their control in an area as vast and populated by gangs hostile to the new government, which often are allied with terrorist movements . According to the French authorities would have been planned and implemented precisely from this area for connection to a gas production in the south of Algeria . It should be noted that in North Africa branch of Al Qaeda was born in 2006 and enjoys a rooting in the non- urbanized areas , which allows it to meet the now frequent losses with an ever new recruitment , which , in turn, from the movement a great ability to move in rough terrain , where you need a deep knowledge of the ways of communication. Even in Tunisia replicate these situations : a contrast in spite of the government forces in the mountains of central-western area , allow shelters almost impenetrable , ideal for the construction of logistics bases . For now, only Morocco seems to be the only country in North Africa without a threat of Al Qaeda on its territory , thanks to a relentless intelligence work of local forces with those of the West and those of the Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf , but it would be a process of recruitment by Al Qaeda, which aims to recruit young Moroccans among its ranks , however, despite Morocco has never been affected by the action of Islamic terrorist movement , is well known in the presence of Moroccan jihadist groups , both in the Sahel in Syria, where there would be a brigade that has future plans to transfer the jihad also within the Moroccan state , with the aim of subverting the national order , which is far from easy for the policy more open the King of Morocco .