| Rebels in northern Chad said Monday that they have handed over two Islamic extremists from Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat to the Libyan authorities. "Libya said it captured two people after fighting at the Chad-Libya border, but this is not true. These are two people who we handed over to the Libyan authorities," Aboubakar Radjab-Dazi, spokesman for the rebel Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad (MDJT), told AFP in Libreville by telephone. The MDJT has claimed since mid-March that it held members of the GSPC, captured in Chad's northern Tibesti region. According to Radjab-Dazi, Tripoli acted as an intermediary in the prisoner transfer but did not hand the two alleged GSPC members on to the third country that had asked for them. In late May, the MDJT said it was holding talks with officials in Algiers about handing over members of the GSPC, Algeria's largest extremist group. |