40 Kalashnikovs, 300 bombs stolen from Libya barracks
Droudkel
A total of 40 Kalashnikovs and more than 300 bombs were stolen from a military barracks in the Libyan area of Benghazi, few days ago, Echorouk has learnt.
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Libyan authorities opened a large-scale investigation in the theft while no more details were reported on this process.
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According to Libyan sources close to former leading members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), there are fears over the possibility of smuggling the weapons to the strongholds of the so-called the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) across south-east borders.
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Previously, security reports showed that smuggled weapons to Algeria pass by many routes including Turkey to Libya to the southern provinces of Oued Souf and Biskra. Finally, they are smuggled again to Batna (east of Algiers) to Msila where smugglers sell them in east and north of Algiers.
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The GSPC led by Abdelmalek Droudkel nicknamed Abu Musab Abdelouadoud face difficulties in getting weapons after former senior member Mokhtar Belmokhtar nicknamed Khaled Abu Abbas had withdrawn.
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Belmokhtar used to provide the group with smuggled weapons and drugs at the southern borders.
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Droudkel’s group includes many foreigners. Most of them are Libyans and Mauritanians while some of them were killed in eastern Algiers.