30/11/2007
Twenty-four Tunisians have recently entered Algeria to join al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, Ech Chourouk quoted Tunisian judicial sources as saying on Thursday (November 29th). Documents discovered during the dismantling of a terrorist network in Tunisia revealed that the terrorists planned to undergo weapons and explosives training in al-Qaeda's Algerian camps.
On Monday, a Tunisian court sentenced nine convicted members of a local Salafist terror organisation to up to 12 years in prison.
In related news, Algerian citizen Mustafa Labsi, who is allegedly linked to al-Qaeda and has been charged with planning a number of terrorist attacks in Slovakia, will be extradited to Algeria, a regional court in Bratislava decided on Friday. Labsi, who was arrested by Slovak police on May 3rd during an illegal attempt to cross the border into Austria, said he will appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. "The extradition is backed by a bilateral agreement on legal assistance between the former Czechoslovakia and Algeria," Slovak judges said.