Al-Qaeda uses Algeria’s western borders to get exterior support

A storehouse of weapons and ammunition was found in a migrant investor’s house on Monday in Tlemcen province (west of Algiers).

The weapons had been likely brought from France to fund the so-called Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb as many indicators show that terrorists are more and more relying on Algerian western borders for logistic support and contacting terror foreign networks.

According to reliable sources, the National Gendarmerie forces seized an important quantity of weapons and ammunition in the house of a restaurant’s owner in Tlemcen.

A total of 35 knifes, a saw and 58 metal sticks were found in the same house.

 Investigators say the sticks are used to forge vehicles’ registration numbers; which confirms coordination between arm dealers and car smugglers.

In March, an international network of bomb smuggling led by a Moroccan was dismantled in Tlemcen. An attempt to smuggle 108 anti-personal mines was foiled as well.

Algerian security forces have information which show attempts from the so-called Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb to increase its acts in Tlemcen. This province constitutes a strategic place for weapons and ammunition smuggling.

 Earlier, investigations in the Algiers attacks on April 11 showed that the used bombs had been smuggled from Morocco.Many terror support cells have recently been dismantled and an attempt to join suicide bombers’ cell in Tlemcen has been foiled. .