Algeria : Al-Qaeda-related mines trafficking affair before justice

Judicial sources told Echorouk newspaper that the affair of the 2500 anti-personnel mines, seized by Algerian Security Forces on the border with Morocco and destined to Al-Qaeda terror group, would be dealt with by the criminal court of Algiers on May 11, 2008.

Judicial sources told Echorouk newspaper that the affair of the 2500 anti-personnel mines, seized by Algerian Security Forces on the border with Morocco and destined to Al-Qaeda terror group, would be dealt with by the criminal court of Algiers on May 11, 2008.

 The same sources also indicated that this major batch of explosive devices had been smuggled through the Moroccan border into Algerian territory by an international arms trafficking network having close links with terrorist groups operating in the region.

 These mines transit through the Moroccan border town of Oudjda where they are turned into bombs before being smuggled into Algeria by the traffickers who hand them over to the terror groups for use in bomb attacks on Algerian soil.

 These smuggled deadly weapons were seized by the combined forces of the National Popular Army and the summer of 2007 during a large- scale combing operation carried out in the border region during which several terrorists were rounded up.