Security services arrested last week the members of a cell formerly governed by Samir Sayoud said to be the chief of staff of the former Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, GSPC, re-dubbed al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb eliminated by security forces later in April. The cell was providing terrorists with funds as well as human capital.Security services arrested 3 people from the eastern suburb of Algiers upon inquiries led about Sayoud alias Mussab role in the second region of the former Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, GSPC, functional chart, well-informed sources told El Khabar. The arrested have been remanded under custody for terrorism funding charges and conspiracy with terrorist.
To recall, al Qaeda has already denied the fact that Samir Sayoud was an important chief, in a communiqué aired after his death, stressing that he was a mere “soldier and a member of the communication committee and that he was not involved in 4/11 kamikaze attacks.