Security agencies around the world seems to be tightening their belts or pulling their socks up against terrorist groups, especially al-Qaeda, after a plan to carry out an extensive attack on Britain on ‘a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki’ of the most wanted terrorist organization was discovered by a leaked intelligence report published in the ‘Times’.
In a latest incident, Algerian army men yesterday killed Samir Moussaab, the coordinator and second-in-command of Al Qaeda’s North African division.
Moussaab, whose original name was Samir Saioud, was traced by the information from ex-members pardoned under an amnesty and shoot dead in a fierce encounter in the Boumerdes region, about 31 miles east of Algiers.
Algeria earlier this month was ripped through by twin bombings in the capital Algiers, claimed by a terrorist group affiliated to al-Qaida that changed its name from the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), killing at least 33 people and wounded more than 100, worst attack since its long civil war.
After the recent bombings in the capital town, Algerian forces have intensified their attacks on terrorist group in the Kabylie region of east Algiers, a stronghold of extremists, to wipe out the remains of Islamist rebels in the region.
