Is Global Jihad Coming to North Africa?
In the last five years, terrorist incidents across North Africa have appeared to be inspired by, if not necessarily coordinated with, international jihadi groups. On March 21st, 2007, the CSIS Middle East Program hosted Hugh Roberts, director of the North Africa Project at the International Crisis Group, for a discussion on whether North Africa will become the next major front for global jihad. Roberts argued that although some jihadi groups in North Africa have publicly aligned themselves with groups such as al-Qaeda, they remain autonomous and locally directed, and common interests and agendas have yet to emerge between them.
