On December 5, 2012, the Mauritanian news website Saharamedias.net reported that prominent Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar had established a new group of fidayeen (martyrdom seekers) called Al-Muwaqi'un Bi-Dimaa', with the purpose of deterring any possible Western and African military intervention in Azawad. Belmokhtar announced the new group in a video message posted online the same day. In the message, he threated France and the African countries that the mujahideen would take retaliatory actions on their own soil if they intervened in Azawad.
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