Tight security measures to foil terrorist attacks in Algiers

National Security Department beefed up controlling measures through the identification of suspicious cars likely to be used in suicide attacks relying on data collected by patrols. These newly-devised measures staved off a series of suicide bombings.

• Local authorities deployed an impressive security plan all along the holly month of Ramadan and even beyond this period, to foil these terror attacks. The presence of security agents was noticeable as from yesterday around public squares, bus and train and taxi stations I a bid to assure a maximum security pending the coming “EID” ( Muslim religious feast which marking end of fasting).
• In addition to a rising number of road checkpoints, mosques and cemeteries will be closely secured especially that day which records unusual activities as people flock in to either perform the “Eid prayer” or pay homage to their dead.
• Well informed sources revealed that the National Security Department elaborated a top secret security plan over this holy month to fend off terrorist attacks. This plan consists in using patrols to identify suspicious cars and compare their license plate serial numbers with the police data.
• This newly –devised method proved very efficient, as opposed to the traditional measures which consists in controlling cars haphazardly at checkpoints, most of the time avoided by terrorists,.
• The sources added that the outlets to Algiers from the eastern parts of Boumerdes have been cordoned off to avoid terrorists’ attacks the day of “Eid” most probably chosen by the terrorists to perpetrate their acts to hit the headlines