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By on March 22, 2010
The bipartisan majority of U.S. senators sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton supporting U.S. policy vis-à-vis the Sahara conflict and expressing its concern regarding the growing regional instability and rising the terrorist threat in North Africa.

This is a call to the Obama Administration to grant enough attention to resolve the most pressing conflict in the region – the Sahara conflict- through a political issue” and thus “eliminate the main obstacle to stability in the region”.
The U.S. Senate letter reflects a strong support for U.S. policy that supports a solution to the Sahara dispute based on “substantial autonomy for the Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty”, qualified as “serious and credible”.
In April 2009, 233 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to President Obama calling his support for the Moroccan proposal for autonomy, also expressing concern that the continuing conflict in the Sahara undermines efforts to combat instability and terrorism growing in the region.
In another report entitled, “Why does the Maghreb count? “Pour quoi le Maghreb compete-t-il? ; Published March 31, 2009 by a group of foreign policy experts said that “the United States must work diligently with its partners to resolve the impasse over Western Sahara to protect U.S. security interests and promote the prosperity and regional peace.
In January 2010, a report by the Center for International Studies on Terrorism of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies found out that attacks by al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups in North Africa have been  raised up  to 550 %., since September  11, 2001.

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