Leader of Al Ansar battalion bought cars and built warehouses east of Algeria

The accused “M.A” called “Echikh” 46 years from Timezrite, east of Algiers, who was followed by the court of Boumerdes, east of Algiers, on charges of joining a terrorist group and owning an arm, said that the facts of the case back to April 2009, when the judicial police of Algiers opened an investigation on the information received about a terrorist back up cell in the region.

• Investigations found that the accused was dealing with a terrorist group under the command of El Fermache, and during his arrest in the village of Ouled Ziane in Timezrite, he told the judicial police that he is a member of a terrorist back up cell since 2005, the date of his meeting with the terrorist El Bay, who was the leader of a sub-battalion in the region before leading Al Ansar battalion currently.
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• He also said that he called him and met with him along the road to his house, and that he took him along with two terrorists to the market of Draa Ben Khedda in Tizi Ouzou, east of Algiers in order to buy two cars for the movement of terrorists, as well as supplying terrorist groups with food.
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• The accused told the judicial police that the so-called “El Bay” gave him sums of money for the acquisition of a car.
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• This issue reveals the hidden objectives of the leaders of the GSPC or AQIM in Algeria, directly related to financial reasons. The trial of two members belonging to a terrorist back up cell reveals that they received money from the leader of Zemmouri sub-battalion in order to invest in agriculture, as well as buying equipments in the eastern areas of Boumerdes and Tizi Ouzou, east of Algeria.