Tamanrassat Suicide Car Bomb Attack, a war of leadership among AQIM’s heads

AQIM recruited two Africans to carry out the terrorist suicide car bomb attack in Tamanrasset (south of Algeria) targeting the National Gendarmerie, reliable sources told Echorouk.

The same sources added that the suicide attack was surprising and carried out by two Africans, after AQIM fails to recruit Algerians for this mission.

Security services identified their identities after analyzing their DNA at the National Gendarmerie’s Institute of Scientific Research. Commissions of inquiry continue investigation to find other terrorisms implicated in the terrorist act, which was condemned by Algerians and population of Tamanrasset that is considered a tourist area of the first degree, and is preparing to receive a number of European delegations in the spring, where al Asahar festival is held annually.

Echorouk sources asserted that two African suicide bombers were on board of the “Toyota Station” car which was used in the suicide attack targeting the headquarters of the National Gendarmerie in Tamanrasset, adding that it was bought a few days ago from Adrar (south of Algeria), as security services found its owner and are searching for him to investigate on his relationships with terrorist groups in the region.

The terrorist attack, according to identical sources, are part of a muscle-flexing to achieve positions among AQIM, which is led by two heads in the Sahara, the first in Mali region led by “Abdoulhamid Abu Zeid” and his real name is Mohamed Ghadir, from Adebdab in Illizi (Algeria-Libya borders), followed by 70 terrorists, some of them Africans belonging to “Tarek Ibn Ziad” battalion.

The second leader is Mokhtar Belmokhtar called “Abu al Abbas”, followed by 60 terrorists belonging to “Al Moulathmin” battalion, settled in the region of Niger.

The group of Mokhtar Belmokhtar is likely to be behind the terrorist attack, and focus their activities on smuggling cars and vehicles theft, and especially smuggling weapons from Libya, in a time the National Gendarmerie tightened control on the border regions and foiled several attempts by terrorists who tried to smuggle arms in order to back up criminal gangs in the north helped by some Libyan battalions that have links with Salafist groups which facilitate their work.