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Suicide bomber killed in foiled Mauritania attack
25.08.2010 - AFP

NOUAKCHOTT — Mauritanian troops early Wednesday killed a suicide bomber trying to ram a vehicle crammed with explosives into a military barrack at Nema in the country's east, a senior military official told AFP. The bomber refused to heed warnings and tried to drive his 4X4 vehicle into the main military barracks in Nema, about 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) east of Nouakchott, shortly after midnight, the official said. Nema is near the frontier with Mali. Soldiers fired on the vehicle, sparking a "big explosion", he said, attributing the foiled attack to an Al-Qaeda offshoot in North Africa, the Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) ... mehr

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AQIM announces the execution of an Algerian hostage
26.08.2010 - El Khabar

The Algerian guide Ouaghi Beda who was kidnapped following an assault on Algerian border-guards two months ago, had been executed by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) ... The execution of Beda had been announced one day after the release of two Spanish hostages. It coincided also with a suicide assault against the Mauritanian Army, by AQIM. Observers believe that fellows of Abu Musab Abdelouadoud wanted to convey messages through these two operations to both Algeria and Mauritania: Algeria because it is considered as the strongest military power in the region and the leader of the Sahel security coordination, and Mauritania because it coordinated with France in the raid against a camp of Al-Qaeda in Mali ... mehr

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The military chief for the Salafist Group eliminated

Algiers- Security forces have succeeded to eliminate an important leader of the "Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat," the terrorist Abdelmoumen Rachid, alias "Abu Hodeifa Younis", head of the military structure of the terrorist organization together with the former emir of the central region. mehr...

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Algeria army finds pig remnants in terrorist hideouts

The Algerian army forces found bone remnants and pig heads in the forest of Bouzeguza in Boumerdes province (50 km east of Algiers), Echorouk has learnt. mehr...

Die Nahrungsquellen der Terroristen scheint nicht mehr so üppig zu fließen, sodaß man auf das im Koran verbotene Schweinefleisch ausweicht. Die Verzweiflung muß groß sein.

Darf der Moslem unter bestimmten Umständen Schweinefleisch essen oder ist das generell verboten?

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Seven members of the Salafist Group eliminated

The forces of the National People's Army managed to eliminate yesterday seven terrorist from the « Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat », during an extensive search operation conducted by its units in the forest of Beni Yenni in Tizi Ouzou. mehr...

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After releasing two Westerners against a ransom, AQIM running his hostage Touareg

In the eyes of Islamic fundamentalists of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, the life of a hostage in Algeria, even though he was a Muslim, has no weight to that of Western hostages. Worth millions of euros. mehr...

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Alexander, zu deiner Frage, ob Schweinefleisch generell verboten ist:
wenn ein glaeubiger Moslem Schweinefleisch isst, ohne es zu wissen, wird ihm die begangene Suende vergeben. Ansonsten ist es eben verboten - und Drogen sind auch verboten (und Alkohol), und doch gibt es jede Menge Moslems, die Drogen nehmen. Das Schweinefleisch ist zwar das groesste Uebel (einem "normalen" Moslem kommt schon bei dem Gedanken daran Brechreiz)...doch - in der Not frisst der Teufel Fliegen!!!
Allerdings, wenn Leute, die im Namen Gottes kaempfen und andere Menschen im Namen Gottes umbringen, dann ist es sicher eine Frage, ob es wirklich glaubhaft ist - wenn diese Menschen auf der anderen Seite Schweinefleisch essen (das macht sie unglaubwuerdig!!!). Glaeubige Moslems werden dafuer beten, dass Gott sie "versorgt" - und sicher nicht mit Schweinen ...

Hi zusammen,
also ich würde sagen "der Zweck heiligt die Mittel". Wenn es denn um das Beseitigen von Ungläubigen geht, darf der Mudschah schon mal ein Schweinesteak einfräsen, damit er fit bleibt.
Dieses Verhalten ist immerhin religionsübergreifend - ob es sich doch jeweils um denselben Gott handelt?!
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Algeria killings cast light on Qaeda extortion racket
30.08.2010 - Reuters

BAGHLIA, Algeria - A series of murders in the mountains east of Algiers this month is a demonstration of force by al Qaeda's north Africa arm to ensure danger money from local farmers keeps flowing into its coffers, residents say [...] Local farmers say the killings are designed to show the state still cannot protect those who refuse to pay a portion of their income to al Qaeda ... mehr

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Ransoms boost al Qaeda in Africa - U.S. official

* Ransoms just encourage more kidnaps, U.S. official says
* Al Qaeda Maghreb arm believed to number about 300 fighters

Paying ransom for hostages held by al Qaeda in Africa just encourages more kidnappings and hands the militant network a global propaganda boost, a U.S. military official said on Tuesday. mehr...

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Top terrorist leaders surrendered to the authorities after receiving guarantees from repentant

The successor of the repentant “Abdeldjebar” has responded to the call of Samir Saayoud known as “ Mousaab” and Touati Athmene “ Abu Al abbes” who launched a message to their former henchmen at the Salafit Group for Call and Combat in a move to convince them to give up their armed activities and surrender to the authorities. mehr...

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Algeria investigates Al Qaeda money laundering in the Sahara
08.09.2010 - El Khabar

Algerian investigators specialized in money laundering will provide assistance to Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso in setting up mechanisms to fight money maundering. Security services in Algeria have started tracking Al Qaeda-linked logistic supply cells in the south of the country. Algeria is also cooperating with neighbouring countries of the Sahel to identify financial activities of terrorist groups in the three countries ... mehr

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The security and human facets of the Sahara issue
07.09.2010 - Alarabiya - Mohammad El-Ashab

It is not true that the French and Spanish viewpoints are identical in regard to the ways to ensure the release of the Western hostages kidnapped in the Sahel region south of the Sahara. Nonetheless, the meeting between the two countries' foreign ministers, Kouchner and Moratinos, reiterated the concurrence of the concerns to dissipate the fears between Madrid, which made a financial deal to secure the release of its hostages, and Paris, which resorted to the use of weapons without success ... mehr

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Repentant Algerian terrorists convince AQIM emirs to surrender

Ex-terrorists recently spoke out on Algerian radio to condemn violence and support national reconciliation. Several al-Qaeda regional leaders heeded their call.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is facing a wave of renunciations by Algerian leaders.

In an August 28th on-air interview with Algeria's Radio Quran, repentant terrorists Othmane Touati and Samir Sayoud urged al-Qaeda gunmen to quit "jihad" in Algeria and join the reconciliation effort. They used the text of Qur'anic verses, hadiths and religious scholars' fatwas to make their point. mehr...

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Algeria's ex-rebel leader calls for truce

A former leader of Algeria's Islamist insurgency has for the first time urged members of al Qaeda's North African wing to declare a truce. mehr...

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