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Argelia nuevas operaciones contra grupos extremistas.



Argel, 15 may (PL) Al menos cinco terroristas murieron durante una operación armada lanzada en la wilaya (provincia) de Djelfa, informaron hoy fuentes del ejército de Argelia, que sufrió también dos bajas en los enfrentamientos.

Un portavoz castrense señaló que las acciones fueron combinadas con las fuerzas de seguridad y ocurrieron en la noche del miércoles al jueves pasados para neutralizar a terroristas que deseaban abrir un acceso para el jefe del Grupo Salafista para la Prédica y el Combate.

Los irregulares iban a bordo de un vehículo y mantenían controlado un trayecto de camino que sería utilizado por el jefe de los salafistas, pero fueron sorprendidos por una emboscada que acabó con la vida de cinco terroristas y heridos a otro número indeterminado.

La fuente añadió que varios de los islamistas radicales lograron escapar en el mismo carro, pese a ser perseguidos por efectivos de las fuerzas armadas, que habitualmente rastrean esa área montañosa del centro-norte del país, considerada un bastión del terrorismo.

En los combates también perdieron la vida dos soldados, incluido un comandante del ejército nacional identificado como Annabi Bouzid, oriundo de una provincia oriental, y un sargento, mientras otros cinco uniformados sufrieron lesiones.

Otras fuentes independientes citadas por la publicación digital Ennahar aseguraron que cuatro soldados habían perecido en la mencionada acción.

El Grupo Salafista (GSPC), visible desde 1996, es el precursor de lo que ahora se conoce como Al-Qaeda en el Maghreb Islámico (AQMI), y ha sido liderado por Mokhtar Belmokhtar, quien desde el comienzo expresó su intención de crear un Estado islámico dentro de Argelia.

La milicia que mantiene su denominada jihad o guerra santa islámica cuenta con apoyos dentro de esta nación y en países vecinos en el norte de África para también atentar contra objetivos occidentales, según fuentes de inteligencia del gobierno argelino.

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Algeria - Police say two soldiers have been killed and 18 wounded by a roadside bomb that hit their convoy in Algeria.

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Police say Wednesday's attack was probably the work of al-Qaida Islamist insurgents.

It occurred in the Boumerdes region, 55 kilometres (35 miles) east of Algiers.

The blast was among the deadliest attacks since the start of the year in the North African nation, where a slow-burning Islamist insurgency continues.

The region where the attack occurred was once a hotbed of insurgent activity.

Two weeks ago, security forces killed a lieutenant of the leader of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, Abdemalek Droukdel, in Draa El Mizan, 120 kilometres (75 miles) southeast of Algiers

AQIM suicide bombers kill 4 in Algeria
By Bill RoggioJuly 16, 2011

A pair of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb suicide bombers killed four people, including three policemen, in an attack on a headquarters in an area of Algeria that serves as a safe haven for the terror group. Today's suicide attack is the first of its kind in Algeria this year.

The first suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives outside a police headquarters in the town of Bordj Menaiel in the Kabylie region in eastern Algeria. The second suicide bomber, who was riding a motorcycle, detonated his explosives as police and medical personnel conducted recovery operations at the scene of the first attack.

The Kabylie region, a mountainous area in eastern Algeria, is a stronghold for AQIM, al Qaeda's affiliate in northern Africa. In December 2010, Algerian security forces launched a massive operation in the Kabylie region. More than 3,500 soldiers and police attacked an AQIM camp between the cities of Boumerdes and Tizi Ouzou. Ten AQIM fighters were reported killed during the fighting.

Today's suicide bombings are the first in Algeria this year. The last suicide attack reported in Algeria took place on July 25, 2010, when a suicide bomber attacked a security barracks in a village near Tizi Ouzou.

AQIM suicide attacks have tapered off since 2008. In 2010 there were two reported suicide attacks in the country; in 2009 there was just one such attack. In 2008, there were five suicide attacks, and in 2007, there were four such attacks. The most effective attacks took place in 2007 and 2008 [see list below]; during those years, suicide bombers targeted the prime minister's office, Interpol, the United Nations, and Algerian Special Police headquarters in Algiers.

In the vast majority of the attacks (12 of 13 attacks) from 2007-2011, the targets were the police or military. The exception is the Dec. 11, 2007 strike that targeted the UN offices and a court building in Algiers.

Since 2008, AQIM has shifted its tactics from high-profile suicide bombings to ambushes against security forces as well as kidnapping operations, which are reported to net the terror group millions of dollars a year.

The formation of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in 2006 was the result of al Qaeda's efforts to unite the various Salafist terror groups in North Africa. AQIM is comprised of the Algerian Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat (GSPC), the Moroccan Islamic Combat Group, the Tunisian Combatant Group, and elements of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. The GSPC forms the nucleus of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

While the GSPC has always had very close relationship with al Qaeda, the terror group officially merged with al Qaeda in September of 2006. GSPC officially renamed the group al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in January of 2007. "We had wished to do this from the first day we joined (al Qaeda) but we wanted the permission of Sheikh Osama, may God protect him. This obstacle has now been removed," according to a GSPC statement released on its website.

Ojo al método empleado, coche bomba detonado en el exterior de un cuartel, y cuando están atendiendo a los heridos llega otro suicida en una moto y se detona contra ellos. Muy parecido al ataque que llevaron a cabo contra los italianos en Herat hace un par de semanas.