One of Africa’s most wanted terrorists has released a video announcing his group has merged with another terror group aiming to take revenge on France for its intervention in Mali.

Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who has a $5 million bounty on his head by U.S. authorities, said his Masked Men Brigade will join with a Mali-based terror group to form Al-Murabitoun. Belmokhtar is the man believed to have masterminded the terror attack and hostage execution in Algerian plant in January.

Al-Murabitoun means “the sentinels” and Belmokhtar claims he is not in control of the unit.

The group says they are “stronger than ever” and will “rout France and its allies.” France drove Islamic terrorists out of the cities in northern Mali and back into remote desert hideouts. The U.N. Is poised to bring a 12,600 strong peacekeeper force into the region to replace French troops.

The bounty was placed on Belmokhtar related to three Americans who were killed in that January siege. Before focusing on west Africa in an attempt to create jihad in area nations, he was a commander with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.