ISIS Plans To Blow Up Security Headquarters In Algiers, Constantine And Oran

Trial of the brother of a terrorist in the “Islamic State in Iraq and Syria” (ISIS), who was brought before the criminal court of Algiers Dar Bida, on Tuesday, uncovered the involvement of the organization in the planning of the implementation of three terrorist attacks against the security headquarters of Algiers, Oran and Constantine, that were targeted after the security headquarters of Bab El Kantra in Constantine (eastern Algeria), as investigations were expanded, and the security services reached a cell that recruit fighters within the terrorist organization ISIS, that is based in Algiers Baraki neighborhood, including the accused in the case of the case “F.B”, and who contacted via a Telegraph his brother, who was in Syria since 2015.

In addition, the accused was able to connect electronic communications through him to the most dangerous terrorists in Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and ISIS, as he was chosen to carry out bombings in Algeria, as a preliminary test before joining the organization, and drawing the map of his travel to Idlib in Syria through Turkey.

According to the details of the file that was discussed in Algiers court, on Tuesday, and hearing the accused on charges of  criminality, belonging and supporting a terrorist group that is active in Algeria, and trying to join a terrorist group that is active abroad, the initial interrogation of the accused showed serious confessions, including his knowledge of the planned terrorist attacks by ISIS against the Security of Algeria, through the implementation of suicide bombings in both Oran and Algiers, and he asserted that he refused their request, and it became clear during the field investigations that the accused continues permanent contact with the most dangerous elements in ISIS who are the so called “Abu Dajana al-Battar” from Annaba (eastern Algeria) and “Abu Musab al-Wahrani”.

He also linked direct contacts with al-Qaeda most dangerous element called “Hamza Al Barbari” in the mountains of Jijel (eastern Algeria) through an electronic account using the telegraph with a pseudonym. 

During their conversation, his brother asked him to work for them, after he joined his group to implement the Telegraph, which includes more than 15 terrorists, and the talked about things that happen in the middle east, and he linked him with several terrorists, including Abu al-Mu’tasim, called al-Mashmashi, who was responsible for transporting people who wanted to catch up with ISIS strongholds from Turkey to Syria, he and also met “Al Fakir Ila Allah” (the poor to Allah), who links him with the legal officer of the battalion “Jund Al Khilafa” (caliphate soldiers), and asked him to provide him with information about the places that are more suitable to carry out bombings, and he acknowledged before the investigating judge, but he retracted his statements in the public hearing, and the prosecution based on the data that is provided in the file sentenced him to 10 years in prison and a 10.000 DZD fine.