Al-Qaeda

A girl walks past a wall with graffiti about the al-Qaeda network in a Muslim area of the northern city of Kano, Nigeria. Al-Qaeda's network in North Africa, which calls itself Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), is growing more active and attracting new recruits, and threatening to further destabilize fragile governments of heavily-Islamic North Africa, according to US defense and counterterrorism officials