Chief Commander of the Algerian army, Ahmed Gaid Salah, held last week end a meeting at the second military zone in Oran, west of Algeria, with the commanders of the operational sectors in the west of Algeria, in which he presented a security plan for combating terrorism in light of the advance of the GSPC or AQIM terrorists to the western regions in order to spread the map of their terrorist attacks.

• This visit by Major General Gaid Salah, came on the eve of Ramadan, which would see the implementation of the new security plan worked out  by the Chief Commander of the Algerian Army Staff, as comprehensive security coverage for this period of time, particularly in the country’s isolated areas, in order to foil any terrorist attack.