13/10/2008
An Algerian criminal court in Mostaganem (350 km west of Algiers) sentenced five men to prison for 3 years on terrorism charges, APS reported on Sunday (October 12th). They were apprehended in January after security services linked one of their cell phones to armed groups operating in the Ain Defla region. The convicted terrorists are all under age 30; the youngest is 18.