1091: The up and coming jihadists in West Africa: JNIM. @thomasjoscelyn, @billroggio, @FDD,
Image: Senegalese Wolof griot, Nineteenth Century. Tom Joscelyn, @thomasjoscelyn, Long War Journal and @FDD; and Bill Roggio, @billroggio, Long War Journal and @FDD; both create the podcast: Generation Jihad, @LongWarJournal; in re: JNIM, al Qaeda in Africa: AQIM [al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb], The Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims—a new jihadist coalition in West Africa, established in 2017, through the top of al Q and thence into Taliban. France kept the jihadists at bay for several years, but has grown weary and is intending to bug out. JNIM, politically effective and “upcoming,” killed five French soldiers recently in a short time; fifty killed over the last years. Mali: its north is infested with jihadists; the south is filled with refugees from the north. So far, JNIM has refrained from attacking inside France. JNIM is