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Africa: North
GSPC fans want them to kill Jews, Americans
2005-04-23
Recently, on an al-Qaeda affiliated message board, several members entered into a discourse concerning the Salafi Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). The discussion was followed by a question posted by a member of the message board stating: "Why do you not leave the mountains and go to the cities and start gang war targeting the American and Zionist interests everywhere in Algeria?"
"Why do you not come out where the Americans and Zionists can find you?"
The GSPC, an outgrowth of the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (AIG), in recent years has become the preeminent jihadist organization in Algeria and overseas and is considered responsible for most of the over 900 individuals killed within Algeria by Jihadist violence. On March 11, 2005, as reported by the SITE Institute, the GSPC issued a fatwah justifying the murder of "the Jews and the Christians and all other nonbelievers" in Algeria.

Besides chastising those brothers for improper questioning of the mujahideen, the members affirm support of the GSPC and agree that "their home is the mountain where it is difficult for the devil to attack," while one in particular avers "there are no American or Zionist interests actually seen because they are afraid of the people and more so of the mujahideen."

Responding directly to the issue of gang warfare versus classical direct warfare, one brother describes the dichotomy between the two in terms of their strategies: "The gang wars have basics like fast movement and familiarity with the circumstances, using the battle fields and the natural covers as a helping factor," while mountain fighting relies on "ambushes, raids, and cutting supply lines." However, he maintains that both strive to crush "the enemy after he is tired and paralyzed."

Further, the member states: "The Algerian situation today looks very similar to jihad in Chechnya, where the mujahideen concentrated at one time on city wars in Grozny, Shali, and Vedeno, but after each of those cities were flattened the mujahideen went to the mountains and they are fighting from there."

Another member believes that "[t]he media plays a good part to minimize the operation of the Salafi Group [GSPC] in spite there are many
" and urges the group to report on their news.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#2  aka The Green Meanies of Capitalist Anger
Posted by: Shipman   2005-04-23 10:55:59 AM  

#1  Keep an eye peeled for the United States Marine Gang.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-04-23 10:54:13 AM  

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