Sania Court in Oran remanded Wednesday 5 people under custody for terrorism related charges, among them Zoubir Abu Sajida, one of the 4/11 suicide bombers brother, working in a construction workshop, according to El Khabar sources. The same sources mentioned that Abu Sajida brother recognized during the investigation by the second military region security services that he recognized his brother immediately after he’d seen him in Al Jazeera aired Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb communiqué. To recall Abu Sajida is the only suicide bomber who remained unknown after Abu Dadjana and Mouad Ibn Djabal’s identities have been unveiled.
Security services-led investigations allowed the arrest of Salafist extremists namely Abu Sajida brotherÂ’s boss, an immigrant student taught radical Islam by a famous Imam in Sania municipality, and a pay phone manager in the same commune. Preliminary information revealed that the group members were about to join Iraqi insurgents, and underscored that two others have already moved there. This information mirror that Oran is being a key region for Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb Jihadist recruitment plans. |