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Fighting back: French Prime Minister François Fillon vowed revenge on al Qaida this week for killing a French hostage in North Africa. Al Qaida’s North African branch said it had killed Michel Germaneau, a 78-year-old engineer, in retaliation for a raid against it by French and Mauritanian forces. Germaneau had been taken hostage in April. “We are at war against al Qaida. France thwarts several attacks every year,” said Fillon, who didn’t specify whether he meant attacks in France or abroad. He said France would redouble its efforts to battle al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, a group that began as an Algerian Islamist militia and formally merged with al Qaida in 2006. The group is based in the desert region that straddles the borders dividing Mauritania, Mali, Algeria, and Niger.
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