NARCO ANALYSIS: Droukdel's Death & an Era's End

June 9, 2020

By Geoff D. Porter

Man alive. Droukdel is dead.

For NARCO, this closes a long chapter. I still remember the day that Abdelmalek Droukdel took over the GSPC in Algeria in 2004. I was a very green, very junior, and very inexperienced analyst furiously churning through opensource to sketch a bio of the terror group’s new leader. I had no idea back then that I would reckon with Droukdel for another 16 years...

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