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| Algerian Security Forces Destroy Terrorist Blockhouses |
| 2006-09-25 |
| Source: Tizi Ouzou La Depeche de Kabylie (Internet Version-WWW) 21 Sep 06 The local security forces are working twice as hard these days to put an end to the small groups from armed Islamism that reign supreme particularly on the immediate periphery of Boumerdes. Our sources have told us that since the start of this week major sections from the National People's Army [ANP] have been blocking off the Merchicha maquis and the Guedara piedmont in order to at the least impede the terrorists' mobility. The toll from the operation? "Not much thus far, aside from the demolition of four blockhouses, in which small quantities of food were found," an officer from the Judicial Police Mobile Brigade, indicated yesterday [20 September]. The local bloodthirsty hordes still have, people are worried about this, other fall-back bases that have not yet been blocked off by the special security agencies. However the military pressure is being kept up especially to the southwest and east of Thenia. At regular intervals there, since June 2004, there have been reports of the arrival of bloodthirsty serriats from the Salafi Group for Call and Combat [GSPC] which had escaped the search operations northwest of Bouira. Over the weekend, one of those small terrorist groups had planned the bomb attack which partially damaged a railway segment in Souk El Had, this still to the east of Thenia. Acting like free electrons, and affiliated, moreover, with El Farouk's (with a notorious reputation for his misdeeds in Bouira) El Horra serriat, no fewer than 30 or so terrorists were eliminated between 2003 and 2005 in the urban area adjoining the capital city. About 50 other networks providing support to that phalange were dismantled at the same time. But the situation nonetheless remains worrisome: 50 terrorists at the very least are prowling on the outskirts of the former Menerville. That is one-third the number that has been counted, according to cross-checked news accounts, in the main districts that are close to the main town in the wilaya of Boumerdes. "Annihilating these Islamist hordes or constantly harassing them to cut off their resupply lines or any possibility of contact with their supporters," that, in broad terms, is the goal of any search operation. The GSPC, though, gains attention the minute it manages to reactivate one of its networks. As was the case last week in the Hai El Louz site in Thenia, where a homemade mortar [heb heb] attack seriously wounded two gendarmes and partially damaged their vehicle. Even if the door to surrender remains open, the army, which is increasing the number of its commitments, one of which, two days ago, made possible the elimination of one terrorist in Ghzerwal, is admitting no complacency with the destructive fundamentalism that is advocating a return to the Middle Ages. |
| Posted by:Fred |