In this interview with Echorouk, Soheib Abou Abdesetire reveals exclusive secrets about the Salafist Group GSPC or AQIM, particulrly as they have been experienced since 1994 when he witnessed its establishment, and knew its leaders, including the former national Emir Nabil Sahraoui also nicknamed “Abou Mostafa Ibrahim”.

• *You joined the armed groups after you escaped from Lambez prison in 1994?
• -I was jailed in 1992 on charges of destruction of government’s buildings in Ras El Ayoun in Batna, east of Algeria. I was in Hamiz in Algiers, and after the detention I escaped on March 10, 1994. Today I reveal that only three people were aware of the process days before it happened because they were jailed with us, they are “Mekhloufi Nabil” from Batna nicknamed “Abou Alkama”, he is currently assistant of Droudkel and “Abou Dadjana”, “Masoud Masoudi” Emir of Mestaoua mountain, who joined the mountains between Batna and Setif, east of Algeria, accompanied by Emirs such as Abdelhamid Mrabet “Abou Soumaia” and Boukhalfa Souleiman “ Ibn Mesoud”.
• *Who is the Emir Souheib Abou Abdessetire?
•  – I’m the Emir who surrendered “B.Mohamed”, nicknamed Soheib Abou Abdessetire, one of the former terrorists in Batna and the eastern regions of Algeria, I was detained in 1992 on charges of burning and destroying the state’s property but I was not guilty, I joined the armed groups immediately after escaping from the prison of Lambez during the “Great Escape” on March 10, 1994. I witnessed all the stages of the armed activity in the fifth region, and I was leader of Arroub (terror) battalion in Boutaleb mountain, then I was punished and exiled to the region of Batna, east of Algeria, and specifically to “Esonna” sub-battalion, which bordered Taghda and El Maout (death) battalions.