Al Qaeda launches recruitment drive in Algeria
February 12th, 2010 - 1:54 pm ICT by IANSAlgiers, Feb 12 (IANS/AKI) Al Qaeda has launched a new campaign to recruit university students, scientists and IT specialists in Algeria, a website said.
“We appeal to undergraduates, chemists, doctors and IT specialists to join our ranks,” the terror network said in a statement published on jihadist websites Thursday.
“Remember the massacres that take place every day in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan,” said the statement signed by Abu Muslim al-Jazairi.
Al Qaeda is seeking new bomb-makers and medics who can help treat fighters wounded in clashes with Algerian security forces, according to daily El-Nahar.
Currently, 80 percent of young people recruited by Al Qaeda in Algeria do not have a high-school diploma.
Algerian authorities put the country’s anti-terror units on high alert in December and ordered security to be stepped up at checkpoints following intelligence reports that Al-Qaeda is planning terrorist attacks in the capital.
Al Qaeda claimed twin bombings in Algiers in December 2007 that killed 41 people and injured close to 200.
The bombs exploded outside Algerian government offices and the office of the UN refugee agency in Algiers, killing at least 11 UN employees in the attack.
In April 2007, 33 people were killed in Algiers in a triple suicide bombing.
–IANS/AKI
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