Terrorism: Recruitment of Algerians within terrorist organizations declines
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Algerian security reports show that there is an important decline of young people that is absorbed by the Djihadist ideology, on a national level during the current year that preceded it, and embodies it through twice the number of recruited in the insurgency, whether in the Algerian mountains or the areas where security is unstable like Libya, Iraq, Syria and Tunisia.
Young recruited recently did not exceed during this year, according to Echorouk sources, two people in the national territory, as it attributed it to a set of basic data, including the vigilance of security forces, and tightening security measures, fighting and dismantling most of the recruitment networks, in addition to programs of the government and the program of the President of the Republic for the benefit of young people through the last years.
Echorouk sources added that these programs allowed to absorb a large proportion of unemployment and recovered thousands of youth from the stage of despair in which they were.
Concerning the presence of Algerians in Libya, the source confirmed that the recruiters are among ancient veterans of terrorists who were active in Mali, or in the Algerian mountains who went to Libya, to provide a favorable environment for their activity due to the unrest in Libya, and to escape from the intensity of the noose and the blockade that is imposed by security forces on the rebels’ strongholds in the mountains and their presence in different areas, and what also demonstrates this, is the decline of terrorist activity of these networks in the country.
Another toll also revealed that organization of what is known as the Islamic State, in a tweet via Twitter of the named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the successor to Muslims, who asserted that his organization carried out 52 martyrdom operations, according to his statement, and pointed out to the nationalities of the perpetrators, as there is no Algerian, and are mostly from Saudi Arabia and increased by 60%, and from Libya and Tunisia by 20%, and the rest of Asian and Arab nationalities such as Kuwait.