GSPC Details Recent Mauritania Terror Attack

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Last Updated (Monday, 29 November 1999 19:00) Written by Evan Kohlmann Friday, 15 July 2005 19:00

The Algerian Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat (GSPC)--a North African militant faction affiliated with Al-Qaida--has released the third edition of its official magazine, including further details about last month's cross-border terror attack on an army post manned by soldiers from Mauritania. According to a statement published in the magazine, the attack involved at least one Algerian extremist who had previously fought in Afghanistan with Al-Qaida and was carried out in order to "erase a number of myths, beginning with the myth of ‘reconciliation and general amnesty’ and ending with the myth of ‘desperate remnants’ or a ‘small group that is about to be eliminated.’"

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