Mr Marlboro: the jihadist back from the 'dead' to launch Algerian gas field raid. Peter Beaumont in The Guardian. Quoted: Stephen Ellis.

Mr Marlboro: the jihadist back from the 'dead' to launch Algerian gas field raid. Peter Beaumont in The Guardian, 17 January 2013. Quoted: Stephen Ellis.

"He's one of the best-known warlords of the Sahara," said Stephen Ellis, an expert on organised crime and professor at the African Studies Centre in Leiden, the Netherlands. The reality is that Belmokhtar's relationship with the AQIM leadership – all Algerian like him – had become deeply strained even before this week's attack. Here you can read the whole article.

Other media quoting Ellis on this story:
Daily Mail, IBTimes, BusinessInsider, Yahoo News, BBC News and Het Parool 18 jan. 2013