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| Weapons from Libya used in attacks in Algeria |
| 2011-06-02 |
| [Ennahar] weapons brought from Libya, scene of an uprising against the regime of Muammar Qadaffy, were used for attacks in Algeria, said Wednesday Algerian Minister Delegate in charge of Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader Messahel. "There was a spate of attacks in our country. It is no a coincidence. It is the feat of arms and ammunition arriving from Libya," he told a presser in Algiers. "Libya has become a repository (weapons) in the open. There are a lot of weapons circulating in this country and transferred to areas of conflict," said Messahel. In April and May, Algeria has witnessed a series of arracks against security forces. Seven soldiers were killed in May in an attack against a military outpost in Jijel, 350 km east of Algiers. In April, a series of attacks attributed to Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) caused thirty dead in the ranks of security forces in the regions of blood-stained Tizi Ouzou (110 km east of Algiers) , corpse-littered Boumerdes and Bouira (125 km south-east of Algiers). |
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