TIZI OUZOU, Algeria (AP) - It's being hailed as a key success in the fight against al-Qaida: a determined Algerian clampdown that has pulled the teeth from one of the terror network's deadliest offshoots and could be a model for elsewhere.

Six years after joining the Osama bin Laden franchise, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb -- known by its acronym AQIM -- appears to have been neutralized in the nation where it originated and made its name, officials and experts say, corralled into a remote mountain area and reduced to occasional pinprick shootings against soldiers.

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