Foreign Ministry spokesman to Echorouk: “Aicha Kadhafi is not at all in Algeria”

The spokesman of the Algerian foreign affairs ministry, Mr Amar Belani, has flatly denied in a statement to Echorouk the alleged presence on Algerian soil of Aicha Kadhafi (Colonel Kadhafi's unique daughter) after her reported helter-skelter flight from strife-torn Libya.

• He dismissed such malicious reports propagated by some ill-advised foreign media outlets including the news Magazine “Jeune Afrique” as utterly groundless and only aimed at sowing confusion and forcibly implicating neutral Algeria into the Libyan conflict for destabilization purposes, as he put it.
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• Meanwhile, reacting to the accusations pointing to the alleged involvement of Algeria in sending mercenaries to help Gaddafi quell the Libyan revolution, Prime Minister, Ahmed Ouyahia, accused “the creeping Moroccan lobby in Washington of being behind this low-down propaganda campaign against Algeria”.
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• Ahmed Ouyahia also stated that the mendacious accusations leveled by these malevolent Moroccan circles did not go in the right direction for reestablishing trust between the two neighbouring countries.
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•  “Libya has become an open-air arms market,” said for his part Abdelkader Messahel, the minister delegate in charge of Maghrebian and African affairs at a press conference held earlier this week in Algiers.
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• “There are many arms circulating in this country that are being transferred from conflict zones,” the minister explained.
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• In the past two months of intensified warfare between Libyan rebels and Gaddafi forces, Algeria has experienced two terrorist attacks, believed to be perpetrated by the so-called “Al Qaida in the  Islamic Maghreb”, Al Qaeda’s North African offshoot.
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• According to several experts, the state of disarray in Libya would enable members of local Al Qaida terrorists to obtain a variety of lethal weapons, the most destructive of which are solar missiles.
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• The minister also said that Algeria had abided by the UN Security Council’s arms embargo, and had only supplied Libyans with food staples, although Algeria would provide the Libyan National Transitional Council in Benghazi with dual-use products like fuel, if necessary.