This is how “Abu Doujana al-Bitar” Recruited Algerians Via “Skype” To Fight in Syria

The Criminal Court of the capital Algiers heard on Sunday five out of seven members of a terrorist group led by M. Fares, nicknamed Abu Doujana al-Bitar, who tried to recruit young Algerians into the ranks of the terrorist organization “Daesh”.

During their long surveillance of the social networks, the security forces, notably the monitoring of Facebook accounts, pinpointed the presence of one of the accused, “B. Mohamed Al-Amin,” at the level of Algiers Houari Boumediene international airport, who was on his way to joining the terrorist organization In Syria, through Turkey. Thus, the relevant security services thwarted his travel plan and arrested the 31-year-old accused who was transferred to face justice.

On Sunday, the suspect first admitted during the investigation into the facts, his intention to provide relief and aid in sympathy with the Syrian people, as he put it, before eventually retreating from all his statements and thereby refuting them during the court hearing.

Furthermore the security investigations into the shadowy dealings in the Internet, revealed that “Abu Da’ana al-Bitar” and “Abu Maad Al-Assami”, and others who have been in Syria since January 2014, strove to recruit young Algerians, including among others, “L. M. “Thalitini who lives in Mohamadia, and a certain “Ali,” a 45 year-old public conveyer from the municipality of Baraki, as well as a merchant from the eastern province of Setif.

The latter is said to have been coordinating with several other people wishing to join the terrorist organization through several accounts under aliases, including an electrician working at the Algiers subway hailing from the suburban municipality of Kalitous.

As a result, the five accused were arrested and charged with the crime of involvement  in a terrorist group operating outside the national territory, and also with praising terrorist acts and engaging in a terrorist group, and on that basis the General Prosecutor required sentences ranging from 5 to 20 years against all defendants.