Through the 1990s, Belmokhtar fought with the savage Groupe Islamique Armée, which spearheaded a brutal insurgency in Algeria, and then helped found a successor group, the Groupe Salafiste de Prédication et le Combat.
Last Tuesday the company announced that it had raised $6.5 million from the venture capital firms Sutter Hill Ventures and Benchmark Capital, which spearheaded a round of fund-raising last year.
"This is only the first win," says Kelley R. Tucker of the Washington-based American Bird Conservancy, which spearheaded a year-long campaign to derail Pirate.
The leader of the union which spearheaded them was a young factory worker called Luiz Inácio da Silva.
"Really understanding this issue requires a level of scientific knowledge and sophistication that is beyond most people," said Kert Davies, research director of Greenpeace, which spearheaded Refrigerants Naturally, an industry coalition that has been exploring alternatives to HFCs for several years.
Since joining in 2011, the not-for-profit organization saw a 600% increase in media coverage, built from networking, storytelling and projects like this year's Sky Atlantic documentary, Ad Men, which spearheaded the Mad Men Season 5 launch campaign.
In 1995, he started the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, which spearheaded the creation of a Jewish cultural and educational center in Oswiecim, Poland, near the site of the Nazi death camp.
It said that the Red Brigades, a movement which spearheaded the terrorist movement that wrought havoc in the 1970s, were back.
"I am not concerned about Lugar supporters voting for Donnelly," said Greg Fettig, one of the leaders of Hoosiers for a Conservative Senate, which spearheaded the Tea Party campaign to help Mourdock win the primary.
But Philippe Martinez, head of the CGT, the union which spearheaded last month's blockades of fuel depots and a continuing rail strike, predicted a "very strong mobilisation".
In South Korea, which spearheaded work on 4G, Samsung hopes to launch a temporary trial 5G network in time for 2018's Winter Olympic Games.
