Hattab’s supporters seek to make terrorists surrender

Repentant activists belonging to the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) have been contacting terrorists follwing a recent statement posted by Hassan Hattab, the group’s founder.

• “They have also been contacting the activists of the Salafist Call Protectors led by Mohamed Ben Salim nicknamed Salim Afghani,” security sources told Echorouk.
• “The repentant terrorists are trying to convince their fellows to surrender and benefit from the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation,” said the same sources.
• Earlier, the Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera had broadcast an audio tape of Hassan Hattab who urged terrorists to stop their acts and surrender to authorities.
• Observers believe Hattab has gained credibility about which the GSPC’s leader Abdelmalek Droudkel and his followers are concerned.
• Hattab stepped up his actions after a series of suicide attacks that had rocked Algeria. He has always been calling on new recruited to convince them that they were misled.
• The Salafist Call Protectors led by Salim Al Afghani were the first to denounce the suicide attacks, describing them as illegitimate.
• Many of Salim Al Afghani’s followers had surrendered following an awareness-raising campaign launched by security forces in association with terrorists’ families.
• Sources say the campaign is aimed at the remaining terrorist leaders especially that Hattab has information on his former companions who consider surrendering.