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| Former leader of the GSPC, Hassan Hattab, placed in a safe place |
| 2011-03-10 |
| [Ennahar] The former leader of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat ... now known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb... (GSPC), now AQIM, Hassan Hattab was placed in a "safe place" while the former number two of the organization Abderezzak El Para, has been imprisoned, said the Algerian Minister of Justice Tayeb Belaiz. "We started to implement presidential decrees (waiving the state of emergency.) Hassan Hattab was placed in a safe place while Abderezzak El Para was placed in jug Monday" after being heard by a judge, said Belaiz, whose remarks were reported Tuesday night by the news agency APS. Hassan Hattab, who surrendered to authorities in late September 2007, had been excluded from the GSPC, who joined in September 2006 the terrorist network Al Qaeda of Osama bin Laden and renamed itself Al Qaeda in the Maghreb Islamic (AQIM). He had opposed the rally and went to benefit from the Charter for National Reconciliation in February 2006, offering forgiveness to the Islamists against their surrender, according to the press. Abderrezak El Para, his real name Amari Saifi, is the author of the kidnapping of 32 European tourists in 2003 in the Algerian Sahara. He was delivered in 2004 to Algerian security services by Chadian rebels who had captured him, after Libyan mediation. He has been waiting his trial, which was postponed several times due to the absence of the accused. So far, the two men were "placed in administrative detention - that locks a person without trial, by the Ministry of the Interior as part of a state of emergency," told AFP Counsel Me Mokrane Ait Larbi. |
| Posted by:Fred |