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GSPC in Algeria Details Recent Cross-Border Terror Attack in Mauritania

By Evan Kohlmann

The Algerian Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat (GSPC)--a North African militant faction affiliated with Al-Qaida--has released the third edition of its official magazine, including further details about last month's cross-border terror attack on an army post manned by soldiers from Mauritania.  According to a statement published in the magazine, the attack involved at least one Algerian extremist who had previously fought in Afghanistan with Al-Qaida and was carried out in order  to "erase a number of myths, beginning with the myth of reconciliation and general amnesty and ending with the myth of desperate remnants or a small group that is about to be eliminated."

Click to view English translation c/o Globalterroralert.com

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