Sub-Saharan West Africa seen as terrorism breeding ground

From: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) | Date: June 10, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

KATHERINE SHRADER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
06-10-2007

Sub-Saharan West Africa seen as terrorism breeding ground
By KATHERINE SHRADER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 06-10-2007, Sunday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions

WASHINGTON — U.S. counterterrorism officials are paying renewed attention to an increasingly dangerous incubator for extremism: a swath of northern and sub-Saharan West Africa, from the Atlantic coast of Morocco and Mauritania to the deserts of Chad.

The center of terrorism problems in the region is Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat ...

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