March 11, 2008 -- Italian police arrested four Algerians alleged to have provided support to the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), El Khabar quoted Italian police officials as saying on Monday (March 10th). The men lived in Naples, near the Swiss border, and are alleged to have counterfeited money and sent the proceeds to Algeria via France. Italian police reportedly dismantled the cell after a year-long investigation of Algerian terror groups in Italy.
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11th March 2008 22:29 #638
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Mardi 11 Mars 2008 -- Quatre années de prison ferme ont été prononcées par le tribunal criminel de la Cour d’Alger contre deux accusés, pour avoir adhéré et fourni le soutien à un groupe terroriste.
Il s’agit d’un pharmacien employé à l’hôpital public de Mostaganem, et d’un vieux membre actif de l’ex parti dissous, Front Islamique du Salut « FIS ».
Les services de sécurité ont arrêté le premier accusé dans la région d’Ain Defla, le 27 Octobre 2007, lors de sa rencontre avec un vieux membre des groupes terroristes de l’escadron d’Ouled Amer activant dans les hauteurs de la région.
Le pharmacien a rencontré le vieux pour le conduire au groupe terroriste afin de soigner l’Emir du groupe qui souffrait d’un mal d’estomac et lui prescrire des médicaments.
Les informations des services de sécurité indiquent que l’accusé principal avait rencontré le groupe terroriste dans les montagnes d’Annaba. Il a exprimé aux terroristes son intention de rejoindre la résistance en Irak. Il a été orienté vers les groupes terroristes en charge du recrutement pour la résistance Iraq via les frontières Libyennes.
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Mardi 11 Mars 2008 -- Plus de vingt syndicats autonomes de la Fonction publique ont décidé d’entamer une grève nationale, à la mi-avril, sa durée sera fixée lors d’une réunion attendue des représentants de ces organisations, lors des tout prochains jours.
La coordination des syndicats autonomes a tenu, avant-hier, une rencontre afin d’évaluer la grève de trois jours organisée les 24, 25 et 26 février dernier, et cela en présence de représentants d’une instance intersyndicale qui comprend sept organisations indépendantes.
Dans ce contexte, le porte-parole de la coordination a annoncé que la séance de travail qui a réuni les représentants de cette dernière a mis l’accent sur le programme de protestation entamé par cette coalition, en réaction à la grille des salaires qui « a fait désenchanter » les fonctionnaires du secteur public.
En revanche, il a révélé la décision d’entamer une autre grève à la deuxième semaine du mois d’avril, soit juste après les vacances, et la durée de la grève sera fixée lors d’une autre rencontre, qui va réunir prochainement les représentants de la coordination.
Cependant, cette grève nationale ne vas pas se réduire cette fois aux syndicats représentés dans la coordination, mais va comprendre une instance intersyndicale, à partit du moment où les représentants de cette dernière ont assisté à la réunion d’avant-hier.
Selon le porte-parole de la coordination, la grève d’avril sera suivie par plus de 21 syndicats et « la porte est ouverte à toutes organisations, afin de rejoindre ce mouvement de protestation.»
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March 11, 2008 -- An Algiers criminal court sentenced two men to four-year prison terms on terrorism charges on Monday (March 10th), El Khabar reported. One of the men, who worked as a pharmacist in a hospital in Mostaganem province, was charged with attempting to join a terrorist group and trying to join the Iraqi insurgency through Libya. The second one was an active member of the disbanded Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). Both defendants denied having any contact with terrorist groups.
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March 11, 2008 -- The arrest of an Islamist in Morocco has Belgian authorities wondering if they have been duped by a "double agent" alleged to have acted as an informer while planning several deadly attacks.
The growing storm is swirling around Abdelkader Belliraj, 50, a Belgian and Moroccan national who was arrested last month in Morocco on suspicions of having led an Al Qaeda-linked group of 35 Islamic extremists.
He is also a prime suspect in six unexplained killings in Belgium at the end of the 1980s.
Although the Moroccan accusations were at first met with scepticism in Belgium, authorities now consider them credible.
"Their investigation seems to be quite extensive and serious," a spokeswoman for the federal prosecutors, Lieve Pellens, said after a recent visit of a team of Belgian police to Morocco.
But the case took a new twist when it emerged that Belliraj was probably for years a paid informer for Belgium's domestic intelligence services, the State Security.
The head of the agency, Alain Winants, implicitly acknowledged that was the case recently by filing a complaint after the "highly classified" information was revealed in the press.
The revelation has reignited a simmering row among Belgian authorities, with federal police investigators accusing the State Security of not being careful enough in recruiting its informers and not keeping other services informed.
It is all the more sensitive because Belgium has in recent years tried to crack down on Islamist networks in order to shake off its reputation as a rear base for extremists in Europe.
The case continues to rumble on, as almost every day brings new "leaks" in the press about Belliraj, whose wife and children continue to live in Belgium.
The Belgian security service's "golden informant" provided authorities with "crucial information" that helped foil an attack in another European country, according to a recent report in De Tijd newspaper.
Other reports have suggest that his collaboration with Belgian authorities was just a cover and that he was a die-hard jihadist who had spent time in extremist camps in Afghanistan and had become the head of the military arm of the Moroccan group.
"How could he travel freely since the 1980s from Belgium to various terrorist hot-beds around the world," a Belgian police official recently told De Morgen newspaper on condition of anonymity.
"There are two possibilities: either he worked for a secret service or else the State Security is full of idiots," the official added.
Moroccan authorities say Belliraj has confessed to killing in Belgium, in 1989 alone, a representative of the Jewish community, two moderate Muslim officials and a driver for the Saudi Arabian ambassador mistaken for a diplomat.
Although Belgian police questioned him at the time, he was not formally investigated.
Josephe Henrotin, a Belgian terrorism expert at French think-tank Centre for the Analysis and Forecasting of International Risks, said the case illustrates "the eternal dilemma of intelligence services."
"To have a viable informer, especially on terrorism, you come across people who are more or less in those circles," he said.
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