Ariddia
12-01-2007, 09:53
Terrorist group GSPC (Salafist Group for Call and Combat) is calling for attacks against any French and American presence in Algeria, and against the Algerian government itself.
Jean-Louis Bruguiere, the French anti-terrorism judge, told the I-tele news channel on Tuesday that such threats were not new: "For more than a year, now, we have known that the GSPC is allied with al-Qaeda and that one of the targets is France."
Jean-Baptiste Mattei, French foreign ministry spokesman, said the government "takes all terrorist threats very seriously".
GSPC operations have been confined to Algeria, but the group claimed responsibility for an attack near Algiers in November on employees of an affiliate of US company Halliburton.
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The GSPC is said to number just a few hundred fighters, though scattered attacks blamed on the group are reported nearly every week.
It has sought to exploit international links after being cornered by security forces at home, analysts say.
Full article here (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/21DFEED9-A6CF-41AC-B896-1E60F472226C.htm).
This doesn't seem to have received all that much media coverage. Not seen as a credible threat? Nobody cares because any deaths would probably be in Algeria itself? Or are people just blasé when told they may be blown up?
Jean-Louis Bruguiere, the French anti-terrorism judge, told the I-tele news channel on Tuesday that such threats were not new: "For more than a year, now, we have known that the GSPC is allied with al-Qaeda and that one of the targets is France."
Jean-Baptiste Mattei, French foreign ministry spokesman, said the government "takes all terrorist threats very seriously".
GSPC operations have been confined to Algeria, but the group claimed responsibility for an attack near Algiers in November on employees of an affiliate of US company Halliburton.
[...]
The GSPC is said to number just a few hundred fighters, though scattered attacks blamed on the group are reported nearly every week.
It has sought to exploit international links after being cornered by security forces at home, analysts say.
Full article here (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/21DFEED9-A6CF-41AC-B896-1E60F472226C.htm).
This doesn't seem to have received all that much media coverage. Not seen as a credible threat? Nobody cares because any deaths would probably be in Algeria itself? Or are people just blasé when told they may be blown up?