Algeria: Terrorist bombings of April 11th 2007 masterminded by Droudkel

The criminal court of Algiers yesterday decided to put off till a later date the burning file pertaining to the terrorist bomb attack perpetrated on April 11th 2007 against the main police station of Bab Ezzouar, on the eastern outskirts of Algiers, on account of the absence of the defense lawyers of the chief defendant Khaled. A and 58 other accused including the current GSPC leader Abdelmalek Droudkel..  

• They are accused of collaboration with terrorist networks, manslaughter, use of explosives and propagation of terrorism.
• The Bab Ezzouar terrorist bombing left 11 dead and 152 injured among them policemen; traders, university teachers, jobless people and retirees.
• The parents of the 11 victims were also present in court.
• The trial was finally adjourned on account of the absence of the defense lawyers.
• The principal culprit in this affair Khaled  A . was rounded up by the security forces in the aftermath of the Bab Ezzouar attack.
• Khaled A . said in his avowal that he had close links with a terrorist cell called “Al Akram” operating in the mountains of Boumerdes, 50 kms east of Algiers.
• The accused also said that he had decided to join the terrorists groups after listening to a religious sermon glorifying Oussama Ben Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri.
• He added that the booby-trapped lorry used in the Bab Ezzouar bombing had been brought from the Tidjalabine area.
• He said that he had met near the Tidjalabine locality a GSPC chieftain  calling himself “Azzedine” and 20 other terrorists in order to plan in minute detail the Bab Ezzouar  criminal bombing at the behest of Abdelmalek Droudkel.