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Seven members of an AQIM support network arrested in southern Algeria | ||
2011-05-03 | ||
[Ennahar] Algerian security forces have tossed in the slammer seven men, mostly Algerians and Malians, in the southern Sahara of Algeria for financial and logistical support to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), said Monday the Algerian press.
According to the Arabic daily Al-Chourouk, the services of the regional center of research and investigation of the province of Tamanrasset, 2,000 km south of Algeria, were able to identify a "sleeper cell of support in the region of Abelsa (170 km west of the town of Tamanrasset) and ended their activities." They have, at this opportunity, seized communications equipment and, according to the other major Arabic daily El-Khabar, computers and large quantities of currency.
According to the newspaper, the network, mobile, operated between Tamanrasset and the northern Malian town of Gao. It consisted of two Algerians, three Malians, a Chadian and a Guinean, said even the newspaper. The Joint Chiefs of Staff of Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Algeria met last Friday in Bamako to discuss the regional security situation, a source of renewed concern for them because of the Libyan crisis. | ||
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