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Saturday, October 25, 2014

How serious is ISIL threat for Algeria?

How serious is ISIL threat for Algeria?



Failure of the Bouteflika administration to eradicate extremism led to the rise of Jund al-Khalifa, analysts say.

The Algerian extremist group Jund al-Khalifa - Arabic for Soldiers of the Caliphate - was little known before it released a video message showing the execution of French hostage Herve Gourdel on September 24.
The obscure Islamic cell abducted  the 55-year-old French mountain guide days earlier while he was hiking with five Algerian friends in Kabylie, a mountainous region in northeastern Algeria. The abduction was announced on September 22 via a YouTube video showing Gourdel flanked by two hooded men with Kalashnikov rifles, who said they were responding to the call of Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, spokesperson for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

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