Al Qaeda's Battle Plan for North Africa

A North African terrorist ring with deep connections to al Qaeda could pose a threat to Western Europe, the head of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) said.
Ernst Uhrlau said al Qaeda in Islamic North Africa was attempting to expand its sphere of influence beyond its established power base in Algeria.
Al Qaeda in Islamic North Africa, which is also known as the Al Qaeda Organization in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb, claimed responsibility for attacks last December in Algiers, targeting the UN headquarters there and the Algerian Constitutional Court. The bombings killed at least 70 people.
The terror group has also been at the heart of a string of attacks this year, including a strike east of Algiers on Sept. 28 which killed three people and wounded six others.
But Uhrlau said similar incursions in the future may not necessarily be contained to within North Africa.
Al Qaeda in Islamic North Africa "is not just in close geographic proximity to Europe," he said at a Berlin security conference. "It is also presently the al Qaeda franchise that is developing the most dynamically."
Uhrlau said there was a "high" chance the group could seek to expand its operations into Europe.
The BND president also warned the Internet was becoming a "vehicle for preparations" for aspirant terrorists seeking to organize future attacks.
Born of the civil war
Al Qaeda in Islamic North Africa was formed out of a militant faction -- the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat -- which had been left over from the Algerian civil war in the 1990s.
The group assumed its current identity after aligning itself with Osama Bin Laden's international network in early 2007 and taking on a more modern Islamist agenda.
Shortly after this reorientation, a spate of deadly bombings echoed throughout Algeria's Kabylia region killing six people. In April 2007, at least 30 people were killed in attacks on official buildings in Algiers.
Following these bombings, attacks were reported on buses carrying foreign oil workers, on diplomats, soldiers, and, finally, against the motorcade of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was not harmed, though 20 others were killed in the blast.

Source: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3736480,00.html

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[5362079A]

@sinl0rd actually when u mentioned man made laws: u hit a raw nerve.True Muslims surrender/submit themselves to His Laws, His Will. True. Muslims are:

gun totting babies in diapers to grey haired grandmas like me encouraging husbands & sons to prepare 4 jihad, fanning its Fire. More headaches 4 non muslims, no?!

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@sinl0rd By the way, Islam can't/doesn't govern a country.??Boy, you've got to read up on history! Islam governed lands for centuries. That's why I told u the caliphate will return when be make the lines of national pride/culture become blurred & become as One nation, one ummah, again.

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darling, I'm no girl, I could be your grandma. I was in the US 30 yrs ago for Eng Language Institute & first degree & stayed on for another 6 months (on scholarship) then left 4 home. by the way, i received fundamental islam in the US-which erased all my islamic understanding which i brought from my home country. Let it be known true muslim do not feel truly free unless Allah's Rules rule us. So rule us w the Sharia

[sinl0rd]

@5362079A : as i said, that is what the people and soldiers fight for.. the liberation and free will of other people, and to ensure freedom for our own, we do not know if the government has a secret agenda.. all governments become corrupt, then we must straighten them out, we are all in a time of chaos, (and i asked if u were a girl because u kept saying darling and love..) so idk, i wouldnt think different either way

[sinl0rd]

@5362079A : i never said islam is a practive of rituals like other faiths, if u remember i said i understand and respect islam, i would look into converting if not for this war, and social problems that would bring.. but understand, islam may run a country, make its laws, but it does not govern it, we're trying to share democracy so you may have freedom to do as you wish, with that requires elected officials, we're trying to ensure another saddam dosnt happen.. or even worse a hitler or stalin

[5362079A]

@sinl0rd ooops, i mean why we fight u

[5362079A]

Please......man made laws 4 protection?? U don't understand Islam. Islam is not a religion of rituals!! We rely everything on ISLAM--from governing, civil society,fighting the enemy, going to bathroom even to what one dose with his wife. My advice... don't advice me on my religion--bcoz u don't know! I'm not being friendly now. My alter ego, the warrior has resurfaced! Now u know why u fight u.

[sinl0rd]

@5362079A : countries such as yours for freedom to do as you wish, live how you want, and the manmade laws are those to protect your freedom, and let you have equal rights among everyone in your country, i dont know the agenda of the politicians, but the people and soldiers fight for liberation of any who wish it, so they may live in peace as we do

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@5362079A: are you female? because i am getting that interpretation.. we are a people who believe in democracy (mind you ours isnt perfect since bush) but we believe in freedom all the same, we helped overthrow saddam because he was a tyrant, he loved power more than he wanted his people to live free lives, and many were happy, others were not.. muslims do not look at americans for a people, just view us like they do our poloticians, we are very different, and we try to spread democracy for

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@sinl0rd Love, we tolerate u as long as u don't tell us how to live ur lives. U think we fight u now in Iraq, Afghanistan bcoz we x like our religion,No.. darling. Its bcoz u guys want to tell us how we must live!--to live in accordance to man made laws which we reject.Read up on 2nd caliphate Omar Al Khattab when he took over Jerusalem