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Africa: North
Leader of Algerian Salafi Movement Urged Al Zarqawi to Kidnap French Citizens in Iraq
2005-07-04
Chesnot and Malbrunot ("the pal of the arabs") : 6 millions dollars (alleged); Florence Aubenas : 15 millions dollars (alleged); the next one : ???
Note that the last permanent french journalist in Iraq (working for a communist paper) was expelled at the request of french authorities... that's a shame, she was safe, she "never left her hotel", as she acknowledged...

By Bu 'Allam Ghemrasah

Algeria, Asharq Al-Awsat- French diplomats living in Algeria asserted that the French government is concerned about a possible alliance between the Algerian fundamentalist organization, Salafist Group for Call and Combat and Al-Qaeda in Iraq led by Abu Musab Al Zarqawi. According to the sources, the alliance will target French citizens who live in Iraq and French interests in general all over the world. French diplomats expressed the concerns of their intelligence services to Asharq Al Awsat saying that the Algerian Salafist Group for Call and Combat wish to integrate with global Jihad.
I think Dan posted that about six months ago...
According to the French sources, intelligence reports say that there has been communication between the Algerian group, the most active now in Algeria, and Al-Zarqawi who was the leader of the Tawhid and Jihad group before he became committed to Bin Laden and became the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Reading back over Rantburg the past few years, it's pretty obvious that Zarq was affiliated with AQ almost from the first. I think the name change was merely a matter of going public. I'll admit that things were simpler in those days, since anybody with "Tawhid" in their names who boomed stuff could be assumed to be him...
The French security agencies have information that communication between the two parties intensified since Abdel Malik Daroqedel (Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud) took over leadership of the Algerian Group in the autumn of 2004 succeeding Mustafa Abu Ibrahim (Nabeel Sahrawi) who was killed by the Algerian army in East Algeria. Confirming the ties between the two groups, French Security refers to a letter from Abu Musab of Algeria to Abu Musab of Iraq in which the former requests the latter to intimidate the French government by kidnapping a potentially large number of French hostages in Iraq.
Posted by:anonymous5089

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