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...position to deliver extremist rhetoric. The Charity Commission says he must answer complaints this week about "extreme and political" statements. French impatience with Britain comes from the country's long experience of the brutal terrorism of Algerian organizations like the Armed Islamic Group (G.I.A.) and its offshoot, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (G.S.P.C.). The G.S.P.C.'s gory combat videos, full of throat slitting, are on sale at radical mosques. Both groups were founded after 1992 elections were canceled by Algeria's military when it became obvious that a fundamentalist Islamic party would win. Osama bin Laden tapped into...
...planning an additional attack in Lille, which precipitated their arrest. French investigators say London-based Islamist leaders - including suspected al-Qaeda chieftains like Abu Qatada and Abu Doha - encouraged Algerian factions seeking to speed the internationalization of their jihad to break from the G.I.A. and form the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (SGPC), an Algerian organization seeking to spread Islam worldwide through terror. Thanks to SGPC recruiting and cooperation, Algerians were among the most numerous militants in al-Qaeda's Afghan training camps. They move easily in the large North African communities of Europe, particularly in France...
...insults in Arabic. Four Algerians face charges of planning to detonate a bomb in the French city of Strasbourg in December 2000. Federal prosecutors say they and a fifth accused all trained in camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1998 and belonged to an international terrorist organization called the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. The trial is expected to last up to 12 months, and the defendants face up to 10 years in jail if convicted...
...they were searching for. In the most lethal attack this year of the 10-year insurgency that has claimed more than 120,000 lives, 20 soldiers were left dead as well as one member of a civilian self-defense group. The assailants were thought to be members of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), avenging the recent arrest of 150 suspected gspc supporters...
...Italian justice official told Time that investigators are trying to determine if there were direct links between those arrested last week and Khemais' Milan cell: "It looks as though the Rome suspects are part of the same Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. So it's a real possibility that there were contacts." Other early evidence points to signs of al-Qaeda operations, including piles of false identity papers for apparent sale and distribution. And the plot's unsophisticated approach recalls the relatively simple tools used by other presumed al-Qaeda members, such as suspected shoe-bomber Richard Reid...