GSPC Claims "Battle of Shaykh Abul Baraa Ahmad"

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Last Updated (Saturday, 19 December 2009 01:04) Written by Evan Kohlmann Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:00

Yesterday, the Algerian Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat (GSPC)--now known as "Al-Qaida's Committee in the Islamic Maghreb"--claimed responsibility for a series of six car bomb attacks targeting "apostate police stations" in Tizi Ouazu and Boumerdas, "destroying 5 fortresses for the apostates, in addition to killing and wounding more than 140 of them." The statement detailed the various attacks and targets, and boasted, "their casualties are eyewitnesses to the cruel blows dealt by the soldiers of Islam. We inform the thieves and the French who follow the Christians and the Jews that the young Muslim men of the Maghreb are determined to liberate their homeland from every crusader, apostate, and co-conspirator."

- Click to view English translation of statement

"The Battle of Bouchaoui": Attack on bus carrying U.S. contractors (Dec. 10, 2006)
"Five bombings [targeting] Algerian apostates" (Feb. 14, 2007)

See also:
- [CTBLOG]: - "GSPC in Algeria Announces New Name: Al-Qaida in the Maghreb"
- [CTBLOG]: "GSPC Claims Credit for Terror Attack on Western Contractors in Algeria"