Algeria pledges double effort against jihad

Islamist war and massacre take a toll in the North African nation, 150,000 dead, now Algeria pledges a double effort against jihad

This Agance France Press article reveals a growing resistance to jihad - in Middle Eastern and northern African nations, the word is understood as clearly more than inner struggle.

Algeria’s pledge to double its efforts against jihad follow recent months of increased Islamic terrorist attacks. Algeria plans to bolster the nation’s “anti-terror security forces.”

If a wave of terrorist attacks struck America, what would a U.S. President’s response be?

In any case, our prayers and well wishes for a successful counter-terrorism campaign should go out to Algeria… 

"The plan for strengthening our security services,” Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni said Tuesday.

This “will allow security services to double their numbers," he added on the sidelines of a visit by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to the country's Saharan Tamanrasset region.

A series of attacks in recent months blamed on Islamist militants has destabilized Algeria, which waged a bitter civil war against Islamists in the 1990s that left more than 150,000 people dead.

Zerhouni added that "extraordinary" security measures had been installed in the Sahara regions, "notably at airports and other sensitive sites."

Djanet airport in the Algerian Sahara was the scene of an attack on a military transport plane in November, according to press reports.

Zerhouni said that recent suicide bombings in Algeria were "spectacular terrorist attacks," adding that "terrorist groups choose easy methods in their attacks."

Four policemen were killed on January 2 when a suicide car-bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a police station in Naciria, east of the Algerian capital.

That came after twin suicide car bomb attacks in Algiers on December 11, in which 41 people were killed, including 17 United Nations staff.

Al-Qaeda's Branch in the Islamic Maghreb -- previously known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) -- has claimed responsibility for that trio of attacks.

Note: Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat is not affiliated with any Christian denomination or group. Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat is strictly Islamic. No known group mixing preaching and combat exists in Christianity – many Islamic groups do multi-task in that manner.

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