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| Algeria to establish new counter-terrorism unit |
| 2008-01-08 |
| Algeria's General Directorate of National Safety (DGSN) is working to create a new unit to fight terrorism and criminality, El Khabar reported on Monday (January 7th). The DGSN is also restructuring and reorganising the judicial police directorate. As part of a new security plan recently announced by DGSN director general Ali Tounsi, the new unit will comprise some 200,000 security officers with experience and skills in fighting terrorism. In the aftermath of the December 11th terrorist attacks in Algiers, security services have implemented preventive measures at embassies and institutions and erected barriers around the presidential headquarters and various other strategic buildings in the country. In related news, the Algerian army killed seven suspected terrorists near their hideout in Tebessa, L'Expression reported on Saturday. Chaib Khmisi, a leader in the El-Feth El-Moubine terror cell, was reportedly killed. The group is believed to be part of al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb. |
| Posted by:Fred |