Algerian forces eliminate 20 terrorists in one week: Maghreb's Ben Laden “Droudkel” faces extermination
The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat also know as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, suffers heavy losses during the first week of June, after Algerian forces eliminated more than 20 of its members in separate operations, therefore increasing its luck of human and material strength, which could put an end its existence.
- Human losses that have rocked Droukdel’s terrorist group during June 2010 came, according to observers to the security matter in Algeria, because of the siege imposed by the Algerian forces, therefore, obliging him to resort to the guerrilla warfare, which had not brought results, costing him twenty of his fellows.
- Algerian forces adopted a new military strategy that enabled elimination of four terrorists in Tizi Ouzou, east of Algiers, during a combing operation in Sidi Bounab forest, while the hardest strikes occurred in Boumerdes, east of Algiers, during the same week in Mizrana forest. Security services also eliminated five terrorists, who managed to take aid to the GSPC strongholds in the region, and retrieved three Kalashnikovs.
- These operations were followed by a suicide bombing, described as a failure, in the region of Emal, south of Boumerdes, targeting the National Gendarmerie barrack, in order to kill gendarmes, and steal ammunition and weapons. However, they killed only two gendarmes and lost ten of their fellows during the attack, as three other terrorists were found dead after two days in a nearby place of the site, thus the outcome was eleven terrorists, including leader of the terrorist attack that included about thirty terrorists, who came from different Algerian localities in order to participate in such a failure.
- According to sources, related to the security case in the central localities, the terrorist group AQIM suffers the hardest strikes during the past two years, compared to what it received during the whole decade, therefore increasing its crises.
- Decline of new elements and dismantling of terrorist back up cells by security services, contributed to AQIM’s crisis in Algeria.