Foreign terrorists seek to expand in Algeria -Le Temps d'Algerie
AQIM (Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb) and Mujao (Movement for the uniqueness and Jihad in West Africa) seem to have adopted a "strategy" which consists in dispatching foreign terrorists in Algerian territory to carry out attacks, steal all-terrain vehicles (mostly Toyota station wagons) and attack financial institutions.
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Thus the terrorist of Tunisian nationality, Libya, Mali, and others were arrested in recent weeks, and others put out of harm's way. Besides the suicide attack on March 3 against the National Gendarmerie in Tamanrasset by two suicide bombers belonging to foreign Mujao, arrested the day before yesterday, still in Tamanrasset, two Malians members of the same terrorist organization, Algeria extradited to Tunisia and a Tunisian arrested about two weeks ago in Algeria.
At the end of last week, two terrorists, including a Libyan, were arrested by Algerian forces, and four others arrested in the far south. Mujao, led by the Mauritanian Hamada Ould Mohamed Kheirou, seems hell-bent on Algeria, as evidenced by the kidnapping of three Europeans in Tindouf in October 2011, the attack perpetrated in Tamanrasset March 3, 2012 and the kidnapping seven Algerian diplomats in Gao (Mali's northern city) on April 5th of that year.
The Mujao threatening new attacks in Algeria is trying to superimpose its members in Algerian territory, while no terrorist activity on the part of this organization is registered in West Africa.
What is mysterious from the name of the organization (Movement for the uniqueness and Jihad in West Africa). Why this particular Mujao hard against Algeria? The question remains. However, it seems clear that since the armed conflict in Libya and the flow of arms that resulted from the payment of ransom in exchange for the release of hostages, the organization has facilities to hire foreign mercenaries for terrorist activities in Algeria.
The use of foreign jihadists is partly explained by the great difficulties encountered by AQIM and Mujao in recruitment in Algeria. It is also explained by the exploitation on the part of both organizations of the economic distress suffered by the populations of northern Mali which, nevertheless, demonstrated against the presence of terrorists on their land and formed the core of popular resistance to AQIM and Mujao.
At the end of last week, two terrorists, including a Libyan, were arrested by Algerian forces, and four others arrested in the far south. Mujao, led by the Mauritanian Hamada Ould Mohamed Kheirou, seems hell-bent on Algeria, as evidenced by the kidnapping of three Europeans in Tindouf in October 2011, the attack perpetrated in Tamanrasset March 3, 2012 and the kidnapping seven Algerian diplomats in Gao (Mali's northern city) on April 5th of that year.
The Mujao threatening new attacks in Algeria is trying to superimpose its members in Algerian territory, while no terrorist activity on the part of this organization is registered in West Africa.
What is mysterious from the name of the organization (Movement for the uniqueness and Jihad in West Africa). Why this particular Mujao hard against Algeria? The question remains. However, it seems clear that since the armed conflict in Libya and the flow of arms that resulted from the payment of ransom in exchange for the release of hostages, the organization has facilities to hire foreign mercenaries for terrorist activities in Algeria.
The use of foreign jihadists is partly explained by the great difficulties encountered by AQIM and Mujao in recruitment in Algeria. It is also explained by the exploitation on the part of both organizations of the economic distress suffered by the populations of northern Mali which, nevertheless, demonstrated against the presence of terrorists on their land and formed the core of popular resistance to AQIM and Mujao.
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