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December 14, 2005
Spain: Three Algerians Charged For Supporting Islamist Group
We reported on December 9 on the arrests of seven Algerians in the Costa del Sol in Spain.
Yesterday, court officials announced that three men from among those detained have been charged with collaborating with an armed group, states CBS11tv, and have been remanded in custody until their trial.
An Algerian woman was set free without charge. Three suspects - an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo a Spanish woman and an Algerian man, are still being questioned.
The individuals are believed to have given logistical and financial support to the Algerian Islamist group, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). This group has been at war with the Algerian government since 1992, when a military coup annulled the results of an election which would have allowed religious parties to win.
The group was offered a chance of an amnesty in Algeria. On Thursday September 29, the country went to the polls to decide by referendum if outlawed Islamist gangs, who have killed at least 150,000 people since 1992, should be given an amnesty.
The people decided to have an amnesty, but within hours of the referendum results being announced on Saturday October 1st that the GSPC announced that "The Jihad will go on ... we have promised God to continue the Jihad and the combat." Within two days, they had killed three civilians.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at December 14, 2005 9:44 AM
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