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"<p>Officials in Washington are considering a &amp;quot;significant&amp;quot; expansion of the United States' targeted-killing programme into Africa. According to the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, they are debating whether to add Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar to the Pentagon's so-called &amp;quot;kill list.&amp;quot; For now, the US has been providing information to allies about his suspected whereabouts. But that could change because of his role in  the gas plant hostage-taking in Algeria. Dozens of foreign hostages died in In Amenas, including three Americans. RFI talked to a former US diplomat who believes targeting Belmokhtar could lead the US to play a more active role in the campaign to oust radical Islamists from Mali.</p>\n<p>&amp;nbsp;</p>\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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