Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mourad Medelci has stressed that al-Qaeda in Algeria is being financed from foreign parties, without unveiling their names, while indicating that counterterrorism in Algeria has succeeded. Mourad Medelci has unveiled, in an interview with Asharq Alawsat newspaper, at the margin of the UN General Assembly, what could be considered as a developed position of Algeria vis-Ã -vis Al-Qaeda Organization, which claims terror acts in Algeria since 2007.In fact, the chief of the Algerian diplomacy has raised possible solutions for the total eradication of terrorism, while making connection between the internal solution which Algeria has quite succeeded in, and political solutions up to put an end to problems in the Middle East, including Iraq, and Afghanistan. Medelci said these regions are the cradle of Bin Laden's Organization, and still activates in.
Minister of Foreign Affairs further confirmed the hypothesis suggesting that what is known as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is being supported by foreign parties. He further admitted the existence of a wing of Al-Qaeda in North Africa, saying: "well, I won't say that Al-Qaeda Organization is present in Algeria, but rather it is existing in many places worldwide; eventually, Algeria is targeted just like other places worldwide are." Medelci further assumed that the elements pertaining to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb are not Algerians.