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Africa: North
AFP: Algerian Islamic Group calls France "Enemy Number 1"
2005-11-04
Note this article is datelined SEPTEMBER 27. The planning for this op started much earlier. This was the signal that the operations phase was to begin.
PARIS, Sept 27 (AFP) - An Algerian Islamist organisation, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), has issued a call for action against France which it describes as "enemy number one", intelligence officials said Tuesday.
preaching and combat. who says you can't have it all?
"The only way to teach France to behave is jihad and the Islamic martyr,"
no. that's the only response you know. there's a difference.
the group's leader Abu Mossab Abdelwadoud, also known as Abdelmalek Dourkdal, was quoted as saying in an Internet message earlier this month. "France is our enemy number one, the enemy of our religion, the enemy of our community," he was quoted as saying.
who isn't these days?
France was mentioned 15 times in the text, and the Algerian government was also targeted, the officials said.
quelle suprise.
France and Algeria have been making nice lately. Chirac made a state visit to Algiers in 2003. That must have tightened a few turbans.
Nine people detained in a series of raids west of Paris Monday are suspected members of the GSPC, officials have said. They were being questioned for a second day Tuesday at the headquarters of the DST domestic intelligence agency.Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday that the risk of terrorist attack in France is "at a very high level... There are cells operating on our territory." The GSPC was created from a split in the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), the main force in Algeria's long insurgency which was also responsible for a series of bombings in France in 1995.
no doubt the Paris riots will only embolden them
Posted by:PlanetDan

#3  Don't you feel the love :)
Posted by: Ulomolet Slitch1727   2005-11-04 21:04  

#2  wow...the cognitive dissonance! - an AK47 and the Koran, book of peace
Posted by: Frank G   2005-11-04 20:36  

#1  riots make a nice diversion.
Posted by: 2b   2005-11-04 20:07  

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