The Chief of Defence Staff, Admiral Prize bond Formula, prize bond guess paper, Edouard Guillaud, said Abu Zeid, the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Mali, was "probably" dead. Asked on Europe 1 on the fate of the official Algerian AQIM as dead since Thursday, the admiral nuanced: "It is probable, but it is likely that we can not have certainty for the now, because we have not recovered the body Prize bond Formula, prize bond guess paper,. "
Several sources indicated Thursday and Friday Abu Zeid was killed during fighting last week in the massive Ifoghas. The story was picked up by the Chadian authorities, including the military is working alongside French troops in the north-eastern Mali, but has not been confirmed nor Paris, nor Bamako. In an interview Prize bond Formula, prize bond guess paper, Monday morning in La Depeche du Midi, the defense minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, emphasizes that "a rumor repeated the environment is no information, and the defense minister should not talk to the conditional ".
"INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION OF TERRORISM"
Admiral Guillaud was even more cautious about Prize bond Formula, prize bond guess paper, the fate of the Algerian Mokhtar Belmokhtar, another leader of AQIM, which the Chadian authorities announced the death Saturday. Belmokhtar is suspected of being behind the spectacular hostage on Amenas gas field in Algeria in January. His death was denied Sunday on an Islamist website. Y Prize bond Formula, prize bond guess paper, he other leaders? "There is at least one, the one called the Emir of the great Sahara and others who are the owners of the logistics," he assured Admiral Guillaud.
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Admiral Guillaud assured that the French soldiers were not "surprised" by the violence of the fighting in the area where a third died Prize bond Formula, prize bond guess paper, Saturday French soldier: "We know that we are dealing with fanatics, fanatical terrorists, trained for months and even years. We knew it Prize bond Formula, prize bond guess paper, would be the hardest part of this campaign. "
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Several sources indicated Thursday and Friday Abu Zeid was killed during fighting last week in the massive Ifoghas. The story was picked up by the Chadian authorities, including the military is working alongside French troops in the north-eastern Mali, but has not been confirmed nor Paris, nor Bamako. In an interview Prize bond Formula, prize bond guess paper, Monday morning in La Depeche du Midi, the defense minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, emphasizes that "a rumor repeated the environment is no information, and the defense minister should not talk to the conditional ".
"INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION OF TERRORISM"
Admiral Guillaud was even more cautious about Prize bond Formula, prize bond guess paper, the fate of the Algerian Mokhtar Belmokhtar, another leader of AQIM, which the Chadian authorities announced the death Saturday. Belmokhtar is suspected of being behind the spectacular hostage on Amenas gas field in Algeria in January. His death was denied Sunday on an Islamist website. Y Prize bond Formula, prize bond guess paper, he other leaders? "There is at least one, the one called the Emir of the great Sahara and others who are the owners of the logistics," he assured Admiral Guillaud.
Read portraits Abu Zeid, rigid and doctrinaire AQIM emir cruel, "Mokhtar Belmokhtar a pro Jihad specialist kidnappings"
Admiral Guillaud assured that the French soldiers were not "surprised" by the violence of the fighting in the area where a third died Prize bond Formula, prize bond guess paper, Saturday French soldier: "We know that we are dealing with fanatics, fanatical terrorists, trained for months and even years. We knew it Prize bond Formula, prize bond guess paper, would be the hardest part of this campaign. "
On the ground "we find literally an industrial organization of terrorism," the admiral continued, citing "more than fifty caches in homes, Prize bond Formula, prize bond guess paper, or caves", "more than a dozen workshops including manufacture of bombs in one of the workshops "," twenty bombs "made" simultaneously ". "We are trying to break the back of AQIM and that was the goal as we had been fixed by the President of the Republic," he said Chief of Staff Prize bond Formula, prize bond guess paper,.
