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Geoff D. Porter

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Pres. NARCO / Fellow Combating Terrorism Center USMA / Prof. Fordham Univ. (Personal opinions expressed do not reflect those of DoD or Fordham Univ.)

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Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya's NOC is going thru some things ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria & ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USA signed a mil-mil accord ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania is not joining the Abraham Accords (contrary to the rumor mill) ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco King Mo VI month-long ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช #UAE vacay continues ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia's

Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: 

๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya's NOC is going thru some things
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria & ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USA signed a mil-mil accord
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania is not joining the Abraham Accords (contrary to the rumor mill)
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco King Mo VI month-long ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช #UAE vacay continues
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia's
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Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria O&G bid round is attracting a lot of attention ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco PM Akhannouch won a tender to distribute LNG from the Tendrara gas field next year ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya's O&G sector is still super higgledy-piggledy ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania Pres Ould Ghazouani

Last Week's The Maghreb This Week:

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria O&G bid round is attracting a lot of attention
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco PM Akhannouch won a tender to distribute LNG from the Tendrara gas field next year
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya's O&G sector is still super higgledy-piggledy
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania Pres Ould Ghazouani
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Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco unions stage general strike b/c cost of living ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria Army CoS had call w/ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ #USA counterpart ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania imprisoned former prez continues to haunt the current admin ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USAID's shuttering impacts Maghreb countries

Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: 

๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco unions stage general strike b/c cost of living
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria Army CoS had call w/ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ #USA counterpart
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania imprisoned former prez continues to haunt the current admin
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USAID's shuttering impacts Maghreb countries
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Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria, #Nigeria, & #Niger sign NDAs for the TransSahara Gas Pipeline ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco gets generally positive review from IMF Art. IV ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania's GTA produces first LNG ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya GNU minister survives assassination attempt ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia's

Last Week's The Maghreb This Week:

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria, #Nigeria, & #Niger sign NDAs for the TransSahara Gas Pipeline
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco gets generally positive review from IMF Art. IV
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania's GTA produces first LNG
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya GNU minister survives assassination attempt
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia's
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NARCO ANALYSIS: ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท #France's Nuclear Laboratory in ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria Algeria has lots of grievances. Algeriaโ€™s world is an unjust place where wrongs abound. Sometimes the frequency of Algeriaโ€™s complaining makes it easy to dismiss its complaints: itโ€™s a day that ends in โ€œyโ€ and

NARCO ANALYSIS: ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท #France's Nuclear Laboratory in ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria 

Algeria has lots of grievances. Algeriaโ€™s world is an unjust place where wrongs abound. Sometimes the frequency of Algeriaโ€™s complaining makes it easy to dismiss its complaints: itโ€™s a day that ends in โ€œyโ€ and
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Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania's brand new GTA offshore gasfield has sprung a leak ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco's King Mohammed VI canceled all public engagements for Ramadan ๐ŸŒ™ ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria's relations with ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท #France continue to deteriorate ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya has launched its 1st O&G

Last Week's The Maghreb This Week:

๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania's brand new GTA offshore gasfield has sprung a leak
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco's King Mohammed VI canceled all public engagements for Ramadan ๐ŸŒ™
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria's relations with ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท #France continue to deteriorate
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya has launched its 1st O&G
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Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco King Mohammed VI made an appearance. Looking shaky. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria apparently has some new Russia fighter jets ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania launched a brutal deportation operation ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco PM Akhannouch is losing support ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia has a new

Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: 

๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco King Mohammed VI made an appearance. Looking shaky. 
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria apparently has some new Russia fighter jets
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania launched a brutal deportation operation
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco PM Akhannouch is losing support
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia has a new
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Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya's NOC finances are increasingly bleak ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia ain't hardly got no oil. Surprise, surprise ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco's Noor III solar project is down for more than a year ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania NGOs want answers on GTA leak ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria starts 4th new

Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: 
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya's NOC finances are increasingly bleak
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia ain't hardly got no oil. Surprise, surprise
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco's Noor III solar project is down for more than a year
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania NGOs want answers on GTA leak
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria starts 4th new
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๐Ÿ”ด. ู†ุดุฑ ู…ูˆู‚ุน ุงู„ู…ุนู‡ุฏ ุงู„ุฏูˆู„ูŠ ู„ู„ุฏุฑุงุณุงุช ุงู„ุงุณุชุฑุงุชูŠุฌูŠุฉ IISS News ุชุญู„ูŠู„ุงู‹ ู…ุซูŠุฑู‹ุง ุจุนู†ูˆุงู† : "ู†ู‡ุฌ ุงู„ุฌุฒุงุฆุฑ ุงู„ู…ุซุงู„ูŠ ููŠ ุงู„ุณูŠุงุณุฉ ุงู„ุฎุงุฑุฌูŠุฉ" ูŠูƒุดู ุทู…ูˆุญู‡ุง ุงู„ุฅู‚ู„ูŠู…ูŠ ุงู„ู…ุซุงู„ูŠ ูˆุณุท ุชุญุฏูŠุงุช ุงู‚ุชุตุงุฏูŠุฉ ูˆุฌูŠูˆุณูŠุงุณูŠุฉ ุตุนุจุฉ. โคต๏ธ

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Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania 2025 GDP growth is forecast at 7.9% ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria will eventually pardon an imprisoned author ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco jailed an economist for criticizing the gov't ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia is bracing for a locust swarm. Saied will blame Africa or

Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: 

๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania 2025 GDP growth is forecast at 7.9%
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria will eventually pardon an imprisoned author
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco jailed an economist for criticizing the gov't
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia is bracing for a locust swarm. Saied will blame Africa or
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Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya soccer ultras to UK hooligans: hold my beer ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria drafts general mobilization law ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia's projected 2025 GDP growth is a meager 1.4% ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco prepares a tender for an LNG terminal on the Med ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania's GTA

Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: 

๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya soccer ultras to UK hooligans: hold my beer
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria drafts general mobilization law
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia's projected 2025 GDP growth is a meager 1.4%
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco prepares a tender for an LNG terminal on the Med
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania's GTA
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Last Week's the Maghreb This Week: ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria and ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท #France are still at it. Tit/tat/tit/tat ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ #Spain cos in ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ#Morocco redirected electricity back home to alleviate the former's power outage ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania Pres Ghazouani keeps steering straight down the middle btwn DZ & MA

Last Week's the Maghreb This Week:

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria and ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท #France are still at it. Tit/tat/tit/tat
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ #Spain cos in ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ#Morocco redirected electricity back home to alleviate the former's power outage
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania Pres Ghazouani keeps steering straight down the middle btwn DZ & MA
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Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ The Trump administration is trying to send deportees to ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya ๐Ÿ˜ฌ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ #Iraq is sending food aid to ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco King Mohamed VI inaugurated a train station ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania's GTA is producing above projections ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Bechir is back?

Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: 

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ The Trump administration is trying to send deportees to ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya ๐Ÿ˜ฌ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ #Iraq is sending food aid to ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia 
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco King Mohamed VI inaugurated a train station
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania's GTA is producing above projections
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Bechir is back?
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Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia's Coucous Index jumped 5.4% ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria's tit-for-tat with France continues... ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya...I mean, it was just a question of when, really ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco's Crown Prince Moulay Hassan turned 22 ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania is hyping game changing

Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: 

๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia's Coucous Index jumped 5.4%
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria's tit-for-tat with France continues...
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya...I mean, it was just a question of when, really
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco's Crown Prince Moulay Hassan turned 22
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท #Mauritania is hyping game changing
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Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya's precarious balancing act is tottering ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco enlisted Heritage Foundation in its latest policy salvo ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria's Sonatrach signed a US$ 1 billion deal with Larsen & Toubro ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia's industrial production index dropped ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท

Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: 

๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ #Libya's precarious balancing act is tottering
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco enlisted Heritage Foundation in its latest policy salvo
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria's Sonatrach signed a US$ 1 billion deal with <a href="/larsentoubro/">Larsen & Toubro</a> 
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia's industrial production index dropped
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท
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Last Week's The Maghreb This Week: ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท The bizarre fake news of the #Mauritania hajj flight crash ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ General Hassan is back in #Algeria. He don't play ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Opticians went on an unforeseen strike in #Morocco ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ Possible force majeure in #Libya is deja vu all over again ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia

Last Week's The Maghreb This Week:

๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท The bizarre fake news of the #Mauritania hajj flight crash
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ General Hassan is back in #Algeria. He don't play
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Opticians went on an unforeseen strike in #Morocco 
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ Possible force majeure in #Libya is deja vu all over again
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ #Tunisia
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In order to mitigate the negative impact of climate change ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #Morocco/#Maroc is building a series of big dams. But those dams sever a crossborder watershed into ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria/#Algerie and threaten to accelerate desertification and destabilization. Algeria sees the disruption

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.Warfare Analysis Respectfully disagree. The ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ #Algeria #Algerie Army CoS (not the MoD, who is technically the president) is using Arabized French - classique - which in this context means "traditional" or "conventional." This is especially clear because he contrasts it