Droukdel seeks more terrorist attacks south of Algeria, arrested terrorists say

Leader of AQIM in Algeria Abdelmalek Droukdel, known as Abu Mosaab Abdelouadoud, gave instructions and orders to his fellows in the Sagara, to carry out terrorist attacks in the large Desert, Echorouk sources said.

Same sources added that this information was made by repentant and arrested terrorists on the occasion of the terrorist group’s first commemoration of the death of its spiritual leader Osama bin Laden, who was killed by the U.S. forces in an air strike in Pakistan last year.

Echorouk sources asserted that Droukdel’s instructions were transferred by the leader of Desert “Nabil Makhloufi” to the heads of terrorist battalions, aiming to relieve pressure on the siege by security services, which tightened control on the terrorists in the north of Algeria, through intensifying terrorist attacks in the southern areas in order to deflect focus of armed forces in Tziz Ouzou, Boumerdes and Bejaia (east of Algiers ), where Droukdel’s fellows suffered painful hits recently, following the elimination of many leaders and agents.

Orders also came after the terrorist attack failed to recruit Algerian suicide bombers in the northern areas.

According to the same sources, Droukdel made of the terrorist activity a criterion for promotions within the terrorist group, and orders his fellows to target the official and security headquarters.

In front of this situation, the armed joint forces, prepared an urgent plan to foil any terrorist attacks that may be carried by AQIM in the future.

The security plan aims to intensify control on the borders in order to prevent infiltration by using patrols and helicopters, and increasing the number of security dams, and restore those removed after lifting the state of emergency, and stepping up sudden raids and surveillance of people.

AQIM has two battalions in the Sahara, one is called “Al Moulathamoun” (masked men), led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, and “Tarek Ibn Ziad” led by Abdelhamid Abu Zeid.