Arab governments will have more success fighting home-grown terrorist groups if security agencies in the region work together and share information, officials at a security conference said 31 January.
"The Maghreb region is targeted by terrorist organizations seeking to...terrify people and thwart economic projects," Omran Ahmida, a senior Libyan official, said of North Africa's Arabic-speaking region at the meeting in Tunis.
"We need to do a serious job and strengthen communication between security officers," he said. "It must be a real and concrete effort or decisions will remain only words."
Western analysts say mutual suspicion and frosty diplomatic relations between Arab governments have complicated efforts to share information and trace down religious militants trying to establish Islamic rule in north Africa.
Such cooperation has become crucial as radical groups turn to the Internet to coordinate attacks and exploit weak border controls to smuggle fighters and weapons, they say.
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