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ALGIERS, Oct 28 (KUNA) -- The United States has maintained Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in the list of banned terrorist organizations, according to a US report made available here on Wednesday.
The report, prepared by the US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, said Washington, in its revision of the list, conducted every five years, decided to keep this organization in the list.
It said the group, previously dubbed, "the salafi group for daawa and fighting," had carried out many bombing and violent attacks that claimed hundreds of lives in Algeria and along the northern African coast.
Among the terrorist attacks that had been carried out by this outlawed organization was the blowing up of the UN offices in the capital in December 2007.
The US report said the organization expanded its scope of operations to Mali, Niger and Mauritania, where an attack on the French embassy, last August, resulted in the injury of three persons. (end) ft.rk