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TERRORISM: ALGERIAN SALAFITES SHUNNED BY AL-QAEDA, REPORTS Algiers, 8 June (AKI) - The Algerian extremist formation, the Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), has reportedly been isolated by the cells of al-Qaeda abroad because of the high number of defections from its ranks, according to Algerian anti-terrorism experts quoted by al-Hayat. The analysis in the pan-Arab daily suggests that the Algerian terorrist group decided to take responsibility for the attack against a detachment of the Mauritanian army last Saturday in order to try to breach this isolation. Sources of the ministry of defence in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott believe the attack, in which 17 soldiers were killed, was the work of Mauritanian and Mali extremists, linked to a few GSPC and smugglers operating along the borders between Algeria, Mali and Mauritania. Despite this, al-Hayat notes, the Algerian GSPC wanted to claim the paternity of the attack through an official statement released in recent days, to gain credibility in the eyes of the al-Qaeda network. "The mujahadeen of the GSPC carried out an operation that is the first of its kind: an attack on the apostate and traitorous Mauritanian army on 3 June 2005," the group said in a statement posted on its own website. The discrepancies between the two terror formations are said to have beguan in April when Tunisian police arrested ten alleged terrorists who were heading to the Algerian mountains to join guerilla training camps. The ten were reportedly preparing a major attack against the capital Tunis, but Tunisian police managed to uncover the cell as a result of informants within the Algerian Salafite group. (Ham/Fmk/Aki) 08-Jun-05 17:49 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
