history – fashioned in November 2011 for a Tuareg rebel team below Iyad Ag Ghali and in mid-2012 began an Affiliation with al-Qai'da while in the Islamic Maghrib (AQIM), partly as a result of their shared desire to carry out Islamic law in Mali; was One of the terrorist groups to take in excess of northern Mali pursuing the March 2012 coup that t