Exposing the enemy (terrorists): 11 June 07

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb Provides Eighteen Reports of Bombing and Assassination Operations its Mujahideen Executed in Algeria.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb issued to jihadist forums today, Wednesday, June 6, 2007, a communiqué listing eighteen reports of bombing and assassinations operations executed in the Boumerdas and Tizi Ouzou areas in Algeria between Monday, June 4, and Wednesday, April 25, 2007. This issuance of this information, the group states, is to counter the “pile of lies” disseminated by the enemy’s media in a campaign to influence Algerian public opinion against the Mujahideen. Algerian security forces, or “Harki”, meaning those Algerians who support a foreign presence in the country, police, and gas pipelines, were struck in the attacks. For particular operations targeting Algerian police, the group alerts that some of the officers dressed in civilian clothing, a fact they believe was deliberately absent from media reporting of the attacks, in which the Mujahideen were accused of targeting civilians. Also, in a battle on May 10 between the Mujahideen and Algerian military forces, the group claims that two of their own were killed, rather than the number exceeding ten as claimed by the enemy.

The group adds in the regard of the propaganda war, that the enemy “amplifies the damages to the Mujahideen and categorizes every dead as if he was a well-known commander and keeps silent about the enemy losses and its consecutive defeats, and it spreads the suspicions and defames the righteous children of the Ummah [Nation].”

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is the former Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC), a terrorist organization based in Algeria. Maghreb, geopolitically, is Northwest Africa, including Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, and Western Sahara.