Droudkel mysteriously missing in video tape

The second part of a video posted by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) did not show the national leader of the group Abdelmalek Droudkel nicknamed Abu Musab Abdelouadoud while it showed the suicide attacks mastermind with a mask on his face.

• “The masked man is Abderrahmane Bouzekzeka nicknamed Abderrahmane Etelali. He was killed in a military operation following an investigation,” sources told Echorouk.
• The video which was prepared in April 2009 showed old repeated scenes and others of the group being under blockade.
• GSPC’s video tapes generally show Droudkel as he is “the leader of the group” and the “cheikh.”
• According to the same sources, he was absent in the video tape because he is ill while the GSPC command was trying to deny that by focusing on him.
• A security expert believes that the absence of Doudkel’s pictures in the video tape reveals “a real internal crisis.”
• On the other hand, the video tape showed a terrorist with a black beard leading some men in the eastern part of the country.
• Suicide bombers were shown along with a number of masked men likely to be the “suicide cell.”