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After almost two years in the shadows, one of the key figures in northern Mali's jihadi struggle has resurfaced to issue fresh threats against the West.
In his first video in 22 months, Iyad Ag Ghaly, the leader of the militant group Ansar Dine, delivered an 11-minute message in Arabic and the local Tuareg language Tamasheq, according to AFP .
The message lauded recent confrontations between Malian citizens and "the crusaders' military machine"—a reference to French forces and United Nations peacekeepers stationed in northern Mali—and threatened the Western parties with continued unrest.
Ag Ghaly was a key figure in the 2012 rebellion that saw a collection of Islamist and militant groups—including Al-Qaeda's North African affiliate—seize control of the country's vast and lawless northern region.
Despite being ousted from power in 2013 following a French counter-intervention, Ag Ghaly remains an important figure in northern Mali's political landscape and his