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were also created to patrol the desert, and new cities were created to help monitor nomadic societies in which jihadists could be embedded. On March 20, 2011, four AQIM jihadists were sentenced to death in
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the following day confirmed that AQIM carried out the ambush. Droukdel claimed to have captured twelve soldiers and three vehicles.
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