ICT Database Insight: MOJWA – A splinter group of AQIM
With the formation of the Jamaat Tawhid Wal Jihad Fi Garbi Ifriqiya (The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa – MOJWA) on 10 December 2011, young militants from al Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) declared an internal uprising against the leadership of AQIM and broke away from their parent organization. While espousing the same goals, their means are different; the young militants seek to finance their activities using kidnappings for ransom.
The database team of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), IDC Herzliya publishes a monthly report that provides a summary and analysis of terrorist attacks and counter-terrorism operations that occurred during the previous month. The incidents mentioned in each report are added to over 35,000 previously recorded terrorist and counter-terrorist incidents in our open source intelligence database. Throughout 2013, ICT database team analyzed approximately 300 terrorist and counter-terrorist incidents.
