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"Leader of Algerian Group Vows Obedience to bin Laden in New Video"
ABC ^ | January 10, 2007 | Hoda Osman
Posted on 01/10/2007 3:23:52 PM PST by TexKat
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Armed Islamic Group (GIA)/Salafi Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) Extremist group that aims to replace the secular Algerian regime with an Islamic state. Activities: Between 1992 and 1998 the group massacred an estimated 100,000 civilians; violence resumed again in 2001. - Source: U.S. Department of State - Source: U.S. Department of State
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Armed Islamic Group (GIA) (also known as Groupe islamique armé (GIA))------- "Regulations Establishing a List of Entities ( C-46 -- SOR/2002-284 )," [For Canada's criminal code] .Source: http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-46/SOR-2002-284/text.html, Updated to April 30, 2003 [Unofficial docs]
1991 : (ALGERIA, IRAQ & GIA - See GSPC) IT IS A CURIOUS FACT, then, that Saddam Hussein provided financial assistance to the GIA [Armed Islamic Group] when it was in its earliest stages of germination. There is still much we do not know about Saddam's relationship with al Qaeda's Algerian affiliate. But, Iraq's relationship with the GIA warrants further investigation given its tortuous history. THE ROOTS OF SADDAM'S RELATIONSHIP with the GIA trace back to the 1991 Gulf War. The group's early history is particularly useful in understanding why Saddam would offer the GIA his support.
As the [Gulf] war approached, Saddam sought and received support from a conspicuous group of Islamist radicals. Among them was the Sudanese leader Hassan al-Turabi and an Algerian Islamist named Abbas Madani [ leader of Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front (the "FIS")], both of whom traveled to Baghdad in the months prior to the war and declared their support for Saddam.
Madani was then the leader of Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front (the "FIS"), which was a consortium of four Islamist parties formed to obtain democratically-elected political power. Madani was somewhat more tempered in his support for Saddam than his cohort, Ali Benhadj, because he feared (correctly) that support for Saddam would end Saudi financial support for the FIS. Benhadj overcame Madani's reticence, however, and moved the FIS firmly into Saddam's camp. According to Gilles Keppel (Jihad, The Trail of Political Islam), Benhadj--who was accompanied by "a detachment of Afghan-garbed jihadists fresh from Peshawar"--took to the streets and "delivered a harangue in front of the [Algerian] Ministry of Defense in which he demanded the formation of a corps of volunteers to join the forces of Saddam Hussein."
Writing in Al Qaeda's Armies, Middle East expert Jonathan Schanzer explains that as the Gulf War neared the "FIS became increasingly pro-Iraq and anti-U.S., as seen through their slogans, protests, and even training camps for volunteers to fight for Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The U.S. conflict with Iraq was a powerful symbol of FIS's soaring popularity."
"Iraq and Al Qaeda - The Algerian Connection : Why did Saddam financially support an al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria? ," by Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard, 08/03/2005 12:00:00 AM, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/919kltpp.asp
1994 : (CIA CONVINCED THAT "CONSIDERABLE SUMS" OF MONEY , SOME FROM IRAQ, WAS GOING TO THE GIA [later the GSPC] IN ALGERIA THROUGH BIN LADEN) In a USA Today article from December 2001, Stanley Bedlington, a senior analyst in the CIA's counterterrorism center until he retired in 1994, explained, "We were convinced that money from Iraq was going to bin Laden, who was then sending it to places that Iraq wanted it to go." He added, "There certainly is no doubt that Saddam Hussein had pretty strong ties to bin Laden while he was in Sudan, whether it was directly or through (Sudanese) intermediaries. We traced considerable sums of money going from bin Laden to the GIA in Algeria. We believed some of the money came from Iraq."...
Later, in an interview with THE WEEKLY STANDARD's Stephen Hayes, [Stanley] Bedlington elaborated on the [Iraq/bin Laden] relationship. "Osama bin Laden had established contact with the GIA," Bedlington explained, "Saddam was using bin Laden to ship funds to his own contacts through the GIA."
THE EXTENT of this financial arrangement is not clear. Declassifying the evidence of Saddam's financial relationship with bin Laden collected by the CIA in the early 1990s, as cited by [Stanley] Bedlington, would be a good start to answering these questions. It is likely, however, that we will never know the true extent of Saddam's support for the GIA. This is particularly troublesome since the GIA went on to become one of al Qaeda's most prolific affiliates; a brief review of the terrorist dossier compiled by the GIA and its descendant, the GSPC, demonstrates that further investigation of Saddam's support for the group is warranted.
"Iraq and Al Qaeda - The Algerian Connection : Why did Saddam financially support an al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria? ," by Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard, 08/03/2005 12:00:00 AM, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/919kltpp.asp
1990s : (ALGERIAN TERRORIST GROUP GIA RECEIVES AID & TRAINING FROM AL QAEDA; GIA ALSO ESTABLISHES A STRONG PRESENCE IN EUROPE) "The Islamists [GIA] were not alone in their violent struggle against the secular government [of Algeria]. Throughout the 1990s they received financial and logistical support from al Qaeda, as hundreds of Algerian militants trained in al Qaeda training camps in Sudan and Afghanistan. And while battling the secular government at home, the GIA established a strong presence in Europe, where its cells interacted with other Islamist groups and provided the militants fighting in Algeria with money, weapons and false documents," [...Lorenzo Vidino explained ...before Congress's Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation [before August 2005]
Indeed, the GIA's strong presence in Western Europe played a vital role in al Qaeda's planning and execution of a number attacks. One such incident proved to be an eerie forerunner of the events of September 11, 2001. Four GIA terrorists hijacked an Air France flight leaving Algiers in December 1994. Their goal was to force the pilot to fly the plane into the Eiffel Tower. Their plan failed when the plane landed in Marseille and French Special Forces overtook it, killing the hijackers in the process.
"Iraq and Al Qaeda - The Algerian Connection : Why did Saddam financially support an al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria? ," by Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard, 08/03/2005 12:00:00 AM, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/919kltpp.asp
DECEMBER 1994 : (GIA TERRORISTS HIJACK AN AIR FRANCE FLIGHT WITH INTENTIONS OF FLYING IT TO PARIS, FRANCE AND PLOWING IT INTO THE EIFFEL TOWER - See GIA/GSPC, ALGERIA, IRAQ, AL QAEDA) Indeed, the GIA's strong presence in Western Europe played a vital role in al Qaeda's planning and execution of a number attacks. One such incident proved to be an eerie forerunner of the events of September 11, 2001. Four GIA terrorists hijacked an Air France flight leaving Algiers in December 1994. Their goal was to force the pilot to fly the plane into the Eiffel Tower. Their plan failed when the plane landed in Marseille and French Special Forces overtook it, killing the hijackers in the process.
"Iraq and Al Qaeda - The Algerian Connection : Why did Saddam financially support an al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria? ," by Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard, 08/03/2005 12:00:00 AM, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/919kltpp.asp
1998 : (ALGERIA : NOW UNPOPULAR GIA TERRORISTS RENAME THEIR GROUP THE SALAFI GROUP FOR PREACHING AND COMBAT aka GSPC - See GIA/GSPC, ALGERIA, IRAQ, AL QAEDA) By 1998, however, support for the [GIA terrorist] group within Algeria began to wane after years of brutal attacks on civilians, so one of the GIA's former leaders reconstituted the group as the Salafi Group for Preaching and Combat (the "GSPC"). The GSPC subsumed much of the GIA's international network and terrorists operating within the GSPC's sphere continued to assault the western world.
"Iraq and Al Qaeda - The Algerian Connection : Why did Saddam financially support an al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria? ," by Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard, 08/03/2005 12:00:00 AM, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/919kltpp.asp
DECEMBER 1999 : (GSPC LINKED TO THE LAX MILLENIUM PLOT - See Ressam, GIA/GSPC, ALGERIA, IRAQ, AL QAEDA) Members of the GSPC have been connected to terrorist plots and attacks in Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere, several of which are particularly noteworthy. The aforementioned plot on LAX at the turn of the new millennium is thought to have been spawned within the GSPC's Canadian presence, which it inherited from the GIA.
"Iraq and Al Qaeda - The Algerian Connection : Why did Saddam financially support an al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria? ," by Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard, 08/03/2005 12:00:00 AM, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/919kltpp.asp
2001 summer : (G8 ASSASSINATION PLOT AGAINST BUSH - LINKED TO GSPC CELL IN EUROPE? - - See GIA/GSPC, ALGERIA, IRAQ, AL QAEDA) According to Lorenzo Vidino, "A GSPC cell in Europe is believed to have planned to kill President Bush at the G8 meeting in Genoa in the summer of 2001."
"Iraq and Al Qaeda - The Algerian Connection : Why did Saddam financially support an al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria? ," by Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard, 08/03/2005 12:00:00 AM, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/919kltpp.asp
SEPTEMBER 9, 2001 : (AFGHANISTAN : GSPC PROVIDES PASSPORTS TO THE ASSASSINS WHO MURDERED NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER AHMAD MASSOUD - - See GIA/GSPC, ALGERIA, IRAQ, AL QAEDA) According to Schanzer, two members of the GSPC provided passports to the assassins of bin Laden's main nemesis within Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, just two days prior to September 11, 2001. "Massoud's assassination," Schanzer notes, "was likely designed to weaken the Northern Alliance with the full expectation that the U.S. would require its help in the post-September 11 invasion of Afghanistan."
"Iraq and Al Qaeda - The Algerian Connection : Why did Saddam financially support an al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria? ," by Thomas Joscelyn, The Weekly Standard, 08/03/2005 12:00:00 AM, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/919kltpp.asp
Now stick a set of donkey ears on your head and click your heels together three times and chant "There is no connection between Iraq and al Qaeda and 9/11... there is no connection..."
15 posted on 01/10/2007 7:39:30 PM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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Wanted
Abd al Hadi al Iraqi
Up to $1 Million Reward
Full Name: Nashwan Abdulrazaq Abdulbaqi
Aliases: al-Hadi al-Iraqi, Abu Abdallah
Nationality: Iraqi
Age: 35 to 40 years old
Place of Birth: Northern Mosul
Military Experience: Major in Saddam Hussein’s army
Eye Color: Green/blue/hazel
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5’11” (180 cm)
Weight: 220 lbs. (100 kg)
Comments: Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi has a mustache and a long, heavy beard that is starting to gray. He has a fair complexion.
Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi is one of Usama bin Laden’s top global deputies, personally chosen by bin Laden to monitor al Qaeda operations in Iraq. Al-Hadi was the former Internal Operations Chief for al Qaeda. He has been associated with numerous attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan and has been known to facilitate communication between al Qaeda in Iraq and al Qaeda. Al-Hadi rose to the rank of Major in Saddam Hussein’s army before moving to Afghanistan to fight against the Soviet Union. He has a reputation for being a skilled, intelligent, and experienced commander and is an extremely well-respected al Qaeda leader. He has commanded numerous terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. Al-Hadi is reportedly still in contact with Usama bin Laden.
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"Moroccan source: Terrorist cell reveals plans for establishing Al-Qaeda in North African countries"
08/12/2005
By Ahmad Al-Arqam
Asharq Al-Awsat, Rabat -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The third message sought to establish an Al-Qaeda organization in the Arab Maghreb countries similar to that in Iraq and to unite the North Africans of Europe.
The security investigations showed that the methodology behind ensuring the plan's success was based on attracting volunteers and sending them to Algeria to undergo military training in the GSPC's camps. They would be trained in the use of weapons and the manufacturing of explosives. Furthermore, they would take part in the Algerian group's operations against the Algerian security forces. Volunteers would be sent to Syria after having completed this training to set up a base on Syrian soil, and to enter Iraq to carry out suicide operations.
The same investigations also indicated that the Moroccan volunteers would return to Morocco after completing their military tasks in the Middle East and become sleeper cells waiting for instructions from Al-Qaeda to carry out terrorist acts targeting the security and intelligence centers, parliament, tourist establishments, naval and commercial ships, and foreign interests, especially those of Jews.
According to the plan, Al-Qaeda's terrorist cell was planning to launch its operations in either Morocco or Algeria and if successful, would have called itself "Qaedat al-Jihad in the Arab Maghreb Countries".
A Moroccan security source said that common method of the extremist religious groups is to attract religiously committed youths and teach them the methods of terrorists. These start with meetings held in various places to watch videos and hear tapes talking about the suffering of Muslims and Arabs in Iraq, Palestine, Chechnya, and other countries. Once they have absorbed these ideas, the youths are sent to camps for quasi-military training and in the end, are used as human weapons to carry out the plans of the international terrorist organizations."
