| Submit your comments on this article | |
| Africa: Subsaharan | |
| Chad fighting GSPC | |
| 2004-03-10 | |
| The Chadian army has engaged in fighting with members of the Algerian Islamic group, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). A Chadian army unit intercepted the GSPC members in the northern Tibesti region, near the border with Libya, on Monday and engaged them in combat, a source close to Chad’s military said on Tuesday. The fighting was still raging on Tuesday, he said. Chad doesn’t share a border with Algeria, so it looks like the GSPC’s getting more internationalized ever since they merged with al-Qaeda. They planned to go after the Paris-Dakar Rally too, IIRC.
| |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 Isn't Chad also involved in Iraq? I haven't heard anything about this. I think Chad has its hands full trying to deal with the refugees from Darfur. Chad did fight a running war (the term fits!) with Libya over the Aozou region in the early 1980's, but that's been over for years. Algerians would have to cross about 130 miles of either Libya or Niger to get to Chad. I don't think Libya would appreciate that very much. I'm not sure Niger could do anything to stop them. That's also pretty empty, desolate country, and whoever tried to cross it would have a hell of a logistics problem without some form of support system. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-3-10 11:03:14 AM |
| #2 Isn't Chad also involved in Iraq? I wonder if this is part of the reason why??? |
| Posted by: Anonymous2U 2004-3-10 2:36:27 AM |
| #1 Are they affiliated with GASP, the Atheist Group for Sex sans Pregnancy??? Or GISM, the Indecent Group of Sexy Myns? Or GAGS, the Amateurish Group of Girl Scouts? Or -- oh, um, sorry. Got carried away. I still believe Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat is, hands down, the funniest jihadi faction name ever. One has to wonder if it really didn't come from Monty Python, Lol! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-10 1:20:09 AM |