[Maghrebia] In a newly-released document titled "Letter to Youth", al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb called on Algerian university students, chemists, physicists, doctors and IT specialists to join the terrorist group, AKI reported on Thursday (February 11th). The AQIM statement posted last week-end on jihadist websites was signed by Abu Muslim al-Jazairi ("the Algerian").
| "You want a job? We got jobs! Use your skillz, have fun, get paid! For more information, call 555-Al Qaeda." |
In related news, an Algiers court on Thursday sentenced four terrorists to prison terms ranging from 20 years to life for abducting 32 German and other European tourists in the Algerian desert. Their leader, the notorious Algerian terrorist known as "El Para", is already serving a life sentence for the kidnappings. Last May, the former paratrooper and one-time top militant in the Sahara region renounced terrorism, saying that by indiscriminately killing civilians, al-Qaeda had chosen a path far removed from religion. |