IN AMENAS RAID
On 01/16/2013, a large Jihadi group, commanded by Mukhtar Bilmukhtar, carried out a raid on a BP gas facility in In-Amenas, in the Algerian Sahara, and took over 40 foreign hostages and over 100 local Algerian staff.
January 20, 2013
ABDUL RAHMAN AL-NIGERI
Abdul Rahman al-Nigeri, who is also known as Abu Dujana, was born in Niger probably in the early 60s’. He fought with Arab volunteers in Afghanistan in the 80s’.
January 19, 2013
KARIM BOURTI
Karim Bourti was born in Algeria in 1967. Karim Bourti, a former French citizen and an Algerian citizen was arrested in France on 05/26/1998.
March 25, 2012
11 KILLED IN ALGERIAN MILITARY ACADEMY SUICIDE ATTACK
11 people were killed and 32 wounded in a suicide bombing at the Cherchell military academy west of Algiers, the defence ministry said, on Saturday 08/27/2011.
August 28, 2011
3 ALGERIAN TROOPS KILLED IN THE SAHARA
Three Algerian soldiers have been killed and at least eight others injured in a bomb attack on their convoy, on Sunday 07/31/2011 press reports said on Monday.
August 1, 2011
13 ALGERIAN SOLDIERS KULLED BY MILITANTS
At least 13 Algerian soldiers have been killed by Islamist fighters in an attack on an army post east of Algiers, the Algerian capital, according to officials, on late Friday 04/15/2011.
April 17, 2011
BENSAYAH BELKACEM
Bensayah Belkacem, born in 1963, is a citizen of Bosnia from Algerian origin, currently held in Guantanamo bay, Cuba.
February 9, 2011
ALGERIAN TERROR SUSPECT ARRESTD IN ITALY
Police in Italy have arrested, on Saturday 10/02/2010, an Algerian man, Ryad Hannouni, wanted in France who was picked up close to the central train station in Naples allegedly with a bomb-making kit,
October 3, 2010
ABDELHAMID ABOU ZEID
Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, born in Algeria in the small town of Touggourt, 600 km south of the capital Algiers, in 1966. Abdelhamid Abou Zeid became one of the most radical and violent leaders of MAGHREB al-Qaeda.
September 26, 2010
ALGERIAN ARMY KILLED 10 MILITANTS
Security sources said that the Algerian army killed, on Saturday 08/28/2010 dawn, 10 gunmen suspected of belonging to MAGHREB al-Qaeda, during a special operation near Tizi Ouzou.
August 30, 2010