Für Algerien entwickelt sich der Urlaubsmonat August zu einem Blutbad. Weniger als 24 Stunden nach dem Anschlag auf eine Polizeiakademie, bei dem 44 Rekruten starben, sprengten am Mittwoch erneut zwei Selbstmordattentäter ihre mit Sprengstoff beladenen Autos und töteten dabei elf Menschen. Die Anschläge kamen keineswegs überraschend. In den vergangenen drei Wochen hatte es bereits vier Überfälle auf Polizeistationen und Militärpatrouillen gegeben, bei denen mindestens 20 Menschen ums Leben kamen und 50 verletzt wurden. Hintergrund ist der Versuch der algerischen Behörden, the al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) put the decisive military blow. In 2007, the 1100 terrorists had been arrested or killed. Focus is now on the Tizi-Ouzou province, a mountain east of the capital Algiers region, which is the main refuge of the terrorist group. According to government figures, were shot there in the first week of August in a surprise operation of the army twelve terrorists. Including some leaders. The AQIM paid this first home with ambushes on patrols and hidden roadside bombs and now with two consecutive short, devastating attacks. They want to prove that it is still useful despite human losses. "Al-Qaeda had spectacular moves to perform, "said the Algerian security expert Mouloud Morchedi," even after they suffered a defeat. "With the attack on the recruits to the police academy outside their retreat area, the organization would show they could strike out at any time, anywhere.
In January 2007, AQIM was officially established. A terrorist umbrella organization, the Islamist groups in Tunisia (Islamic fighting force Tunisia), Libya (Libyan Islamic Fighting Force) and Morocco (Islamic Group Moroccan fighters) joined. Mainly active but only the Algerian offshoot of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), was. You should have 300 to 400 fighters and about 200 active supporters throughout the country. Leaders of the organization is Abdelmalek Droukdal, a graduate mathematician, who also had the idea for the connection to al-Qaida. In the fall of 2004 he sent a secret message to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq. The now dead leader of al-Qaida in Mesopotamia had no objection to a merger and promised logistical and financial assistance that the Algerian Islamists had sorely needed. After the end of the Algerian civil war (1992-2002), in which about 150 000 people were killed, there was hardly any understanding of militant organizations. Also had The Algerian government strictly opposes all terrorist groups and offered an amnesty, which accepted many radicals. Including the former GSPC leader Hassan Hattab, who went two days ago for the first time after his rejection of armed struggle in September 2007 to the public. He urged the members of AQIM, immediately lay down their weapons and return to their families. "We were in front of you on the same path," he said, "that does absolutely nothing." Hattab had given up the leadership role within the organization in 2003 after there were differences about whether one should kill innocent civilians. The attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday showed that the new head of AQIM takes no account of civilians. He copied the terrorist strategy of their counterparts in Iraq: After the first bomb to blow up a second to make even onrushing helpers.
The AQIM is no more national movement, she takes part in international jihad against all infidels. "Everyone must be aware," AQIM leader Abdelmalek Droukdel told the New York Times, "we do not hesitate to everyone when and wherever on this planet to take targeted." The report of the U.S. State Department to global terrorism in April 2008, AQIM is, together with the Islamists in Pakistan's border area with the two biggest threat risks. Special worried the organizational Structure of AQIM. "It is not a centralized movement," said U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, "and this makes them more dangerous."
Previously played the AQIM and its decentralized operating partners in other countries of North Africa's marginal role. But in a year, there are exceptions. In Mauritania, in February, an attack on the Israeli embassy was committed. A few months before Christmas 2007, were shot dead four French tourists. And one Austrian tourists abducted in Tunisia. The people behind these actions are from the training camps of AQIM, which are located in remote, difficult to access areas of the Sahara in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. Also the mountainous north of Mali is to be a stay of the terrorists, because the caves used as shelter from spy satellites. To prevent further spread of AQIM, presented the U.S. government $ 80,000,000 for an existing ten countries Trans-Sahara Counter Terrorism Partnership is available. In the Horn of Africa, in Djibouti, a 1,500-strong anti-terror task force is stationed, is chasing the terrorists in their maneuvers from Mauritania through Mali and Niger into Chad.
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