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| 2 GSPC leaders urge group to surrender |
| 2006-02-04 |
| Two leading members of the Salafist Group of Preaching and Combat (GSPC) , namely Mourad Khattab known alias "Abu Omar Abdelbar" and Amar Saidi alias "Abu Bilal Elwalbani", who has surrendered to security services, last December, in the wilaya of Medea, has made a plea to all the armed groups to surrender. Urging them to give up and join national reconciliation of president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The plea was made yesterday on Radio Noble Quran, at 06:40 am. The plea made to the members of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat by Abu Omar Abdelbar from the commune of "Khemis Elkhechna", in the wilaya of "Boumerdes" and "Bilal Elwalbani" from the village "Ouelbane", in "Alkadiria", wilaya of "Bouira", lasted six minutes. The first was responsible of information in the organization, led by "Abdelmalek Droudkal" alias "Abu Musab Abdelouadoud", and the second was in charge of internal and external communication. Both of them were prominent members of the terrorist organization GSPC, whose surrender severely hit the Salafist group. Note worthy that El Khabar has previously and exclusively published their surrender on the 3rd of January, but the Salafist group for preaching and combat denied, through a communique, the information saying that they were arrested by security services. This detail was not made clear by the radio's appeal during which "Abu Omar Abdelbar" seemed very calm when urging the armed groups to give up. They have also recognized that many terrorists want to join national reconciliation in order to take advantage of amnesty's provisions. From his part, Mourad Khettab has called his previous men to surrender saying that the operation was "very easy", he added then: "we have lost 10 years. It's a man's life period", insisting: "my call is real, and it is time you rescued yourselves". They added that they have been convinced of the necessity to surrender following the fetwa by religion's doctors as Mohamed Nacereddine El Albani and sheikh Ben Othaymin. Radio Noble Quran programmes covered Mauritania, Mali, Niger and Chad in addition to the Algerian Sahara in which there is a high terrorist movement, and the area experienced many terrorist operations as the foreign tourists' kidnaping, in 2004, by Amar Saifi alias Amar El Para, who is currently in prison after he was captured by the rebellious group in Chad and delivered by Libya to Algerian security services. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |