Breaking News on Terrorism

The leader of international terrorist network Al-Qaeda has been arrested in Maghreb (Algeria). Bouderbala Fateh, also known as Abdelfatah Abu Bassir, headed the largest terrorist grouping in region.
During detention of the criminal police has found 800 kg of explosives, a rocket, 20 detonating devices and two school backpacks.
Fateh has been arrested together with two colleagues during special action of the Algerian special services with the help of local residents.
Earlier Algiers section of the al Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb carried the name “Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). The grouping has changed the name in January 2007, after it has declared about it joining to the international terrorist network.
Let’s remind that in the summer, 2007, Algerian authorities managed to destroy one of leaders of Islamites in region, who was the military adviser of the leader of al Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb.
The fierce struggle of the extremist organizations against the Algerian authorities started in 1992, when results of parliamentary elections, at which the confident victory was gained by Islamites, have been cancelled. Maghreb is the region in the north of Africa, including Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunis and Libya.