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| Al Qaeda support network dismantled in MÂ’silla |
| 2008-02-04 |
| The investigating magistrate of the court of M’silla, south east of Algiers, the day before yesterday ordered the imprisonment of 11 in 12 individuals on charges of pertaining to Al Qaeda’s North African branch. Two of them had benefited from the National Charter for Peace and Reconciliation and released in 2006, after being arrested for their connection to terrorists groups in 1994. According to well informed sources, troops of the National Gendarmerie last month dismantled a logistic and support network comprising 12 individuals, after being put under surveillance for several weeks. The members of the group were acting under cover of nomads wandering in the grazing lands with their herds bought with plundered or laundered money. The arrested members revealed that they were securing shelter to “Al Qaeda” members operating in the rugged regions of the locality of “Djelfa” and were hiding terrorists in their tents to escape the security forces. This operation is the third one of its kind, since the security forces have dismantled few months ago another supporting network of 14 members in the same region, two individuals were set to join Al Qaeda ranks. The leader of the Terrorist organization, Droudkel, shifted his activities to the region of M’silla , considered as staging area by the terrorists owing to its geographical situation linking southern cities to eastern ones passing by the mountainous regions of Kabylia. Estimates released by the security services reveal that the locality of M’silla counts 22 wanted terrorists who joined Al Qaeda organization in August 2006 and August 2007, four of them are from Mauritania. According to these terrorists moved to Kabylia region. |
| Posted by:Fred |