 Algerian security forces have dismantled a bomb-making unit of the al Qaeda-aligned Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) and killed four of its members, newspapers said on Sunday. Security forces attacked late on Friday the GSPC's Al Tafjeer brigade, known for its bomb-making expertise and suspected of being behind numerous deadly attacks against authorities in northern Algeria. Four rebels were killed, including two brothers, in the attack in Sidi Daoud in the Boumerdes region, some 50 km (30 miles) east of the capital Algiers. Authorities confiscated four combat arms, including two Kalashnikov AK-47 rifles. Authorities were not immediately available for comment.The attack came a day after anti-terrorist units killed a regional GSPC leader in Cap Djinet, also in Boumerdes province. A soldier was also killed in the hour-long gunfire exchange, newspapers said. |