Unlike France's other territories in the Maghreb, Algeria was a French administrative département, run and settled not as a colony but as an extension of France itself.

不同于在马格里布对其他领土的殖民地管理，法国把阿尔及利亚看做自身的延伸部分，当成一个行政区域来管理和运行。

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The document, found by journalists in Timbuktu and published by a French newspaper, is said to contain advice by the head of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Abdel Malek Droukdel.

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Chad had said its soldiers, fighting alongside the French troops, killed two top militant commanders, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and veteran Islamist leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar.

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