News about the elimination of “Tawhid and Jihad” leader, Lamine Abou Chanab

Security cervices to conduct analytic tests for a number of family members of Tahar Ben Aicha Lamine Ben Shanab, residing in a Ouargla neighborhood (southern Algeria), after reports about his death in a confrontation with security forces on the southern borders with Mali.

Some sources told Echorouk that samples have been truncated from a number of members of the person in question, who is a senior leader of the “Movement Tawhid and Jihad in Western Africa”, who has been put on the wanted list by security services in 2009, he also emerged in the leadership of the movement of the “Sons of the desert for justice”, which took of the Azawad territory a background base ‭after returning to the armed activity. ‬

The last appearance of “Tawhid and Jihad” leader, Lamine Abou Chanabbuu Shanab was in a video, in which he announced that the terrorist organization “Tawhid and Jihad” the execution of the Algerian diplomat Tahar Touati, and criticized the government’s position in dealing with the file of kidnapped diplomats and the standards that were adopted to solve the problem.