Reliable sources said that Amar Saifi one of Salafist Group of Preaching and Combat (GSPC)’s leaders is excluded from national reconciliation provisions owing to his involvement in international terrorism and being wanted by foreign security services. Whereas other sources mentioned that two other prominent GSPC members joined their families in conformity with the Charter’s provisions.The sources told el Khabar that the Saifi, called Abderezzak el Para, is not covered by peace law measures that expired last 31st August, pointing out that its “international terrorist activity exclude him from that provisions” adding “he is under international warrant of arrest, for that reason” alluding to a federal prosecution international warrant of arrest, after the 32 European tourists abduction case taking place in the Algerian Sahara in 2003 spring, and released in counterparts of a 5 million euros ransom paid by Germany.
Note recalling that Libyan security services extradited Saifi to their Algerian counterparts in October 2004 thanks to a ransom paid to the Chadian opponent armed organisation who hold him to hostage. In a connected context, well informed sources unveiled that two GSPC prominent members joined their families, by virtue of the Charter’s provisions, namely Khettab, called “Abu Omar Abdebir” a former GSPC information committee official as well as Amer Saidi called “Abu Bilal Al Albani” former foreign affairs committee head, who surrendered last December, and recovered they ordinary life few days earlier after being qualified to benefit from peace measures. This was considered by the sources as a message to GSPC leadership, as an evidence of power good will to bide by the charter’s provisions widely approved by the Algerian people.