Foiled attack on barracks carried out by “isolated” terrorists: experts

Security experts did not exclude that the unsuccessful last attack at a police barracks eastern Algiers was carried out by remaining terrorists in Algiers’ suburbs. “They are isolated lost suffering from a lack of supervision and organisation.”

• The experts believe that there is an indication of unsuccessful attempts of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) to make car bombs for spectacular attacks.
• Close sources say Mohamed Seddouki alias Abdelkader Errouji was likely to be behind the attack. Security forces were able to foil the attack. That shows the hard work of counter-terrorism forces they have been doing since the Algiers attacks on December 11.
• Other approaches indicate that the GSPC wants to cover its decline for a strong strike. It lost an element in a simple spectacular and not-studied attack but what does that mean?
• Security observers say the internal situation of the terrorist organisation “pushes it to carry out “crazy acts.”
• Security forces are working now on the identification of the suicide bomber who went off or blew himself up before reaching the barracks.
• Preliminary information showed that he belonged to the new generation of suicide bombers and was not prepared well, according to corroborating sources.
• “He was very embarrassed and a limited amount of explosives was used.”
• Earlier, an attack on Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was foiled in Batna province (east of Algiers). A suicide bomber who attempted to attack a public institution in Oran (west of Algiers) was arrested and the criminal organisation did not fulfill its goals.
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