The Sahara Counters Terrorism

Algeria, Mali, Niger and Mauritania are setting up a joint command headquarters in southern Algeria to counter a growing al-Qaeda threat in the Sahara Desert region. AFRICOM was deliberately left out of the coalition for fear that U.S. involvement will stoke the flames of insurgency. Al Jazeera's Clayton Swisher reports.

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