Algerian special security units arrested, early this week end, elements of a terrorist back-up cell in the far east of Boumerdes, east of Algiers, following information about the presence of a major back up cell directly related to many terrorist attacks perpetrated in the region, the latest of the kind was the attempt to target a security checkpoint and assassination of a citizen there.

• The elements of the terrorist back-up cell are aged between 20 and 30 years, from the same region. They are wanted on charges of terrorism, as they have been the subject of an in-depth investigation.
• Preliminary investigation shows that the back-up cell has information about the movements of terrorists in the region, as the Army troops moved for a combing operation in many suspicious areas  such as the high mountains of Sidi Daoued, where the soldiers surrounded a terrorist group and clashed last Wednesday with its elements.