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| GSPC finds allies in arms traffickers and narcotic smugglers |
| 2007-12-20 |
| Investigations led by security services on terrorist attacks of last November against Djanet Airport, Southern Algeria have concluded that there is an alliance between drug and arms traffickers on the one hand, and elements from Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat GSPC which claimed responsibility of the airport attack. GSPC said the attack mastermind is the new Emir of the southern region Yahia Djouadi, alias Yahia Abu Amar. Sixteen terrorists took part in the Djanet airport terrorist attack which targeted a military aircraft parked there, sources close to investigations mentioned, adding that those terrorists moved to the spot on 2 Toyota Station 4x4 cars. The same sources told El Khabar that investigations affirmed that the aforementioned terrorists belongs to smuggling groups activating in the Sahara, pointing out that most of them withdrawn to northern Niger. Furthermore, Djanet airport attack came to confirm the strong alliance between GSPC and drug, cigarettes and arms traffickers as well as illegal migration networks, said the same sources, adding that a deal has been made between them stating that the track of the traffickers to be secured by GSPC, in exchange this latter would benefit from important financing source as well as establishing contacts with armed groups fighting against regimes in Sahel countries mostly in Niger and Chad. |
| Posted by:Fred |