FILE - In this Oct. 4, 1997, file photo Algerian Soldiers patrol Oued Allel, 12 miles south of the capital of Algiers, where an army offensive on the stronghold of the Armed Islamic Group moved into its 11th day. The 5 1/2 year insurgency has left more than 75,000 people dead. Al-Qaida's North African faction, which calls itself Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), was born as the Algerian insurgency in the early 1990s, largely defeated and forced into exile into a swath of ungoverned desert land in northern Mali by Algeria's military. (AP Photo/File)