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	Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (French Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat, also known as 'Group for Call and Combat') is an Algerian Islamist guerrilla group which aims to overthrow the Algerian state and institute a fundamentalist Islamic republic.
		The GSPC was founded by Hassan Hattab, a former Armed Islamic Group (GIA) regional commander who broke with the GIA in the late 1990s over its policy of mass-murder of civilians.
		A splinter of Hattab's group, the Free Salafist Group (GSL), has been linked with the kidnapping and ransom of German tourists in Algeria, although he has disavowed the random killings of civilians and foreigners practiced by the GIA.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salafist_Group_for_Preaching_and_Combat (417 words)

	Armed Islamic Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Armed Islamic Group (GIA, from French Groupe Islamique Armé; Arabic al-Jama'ah al-Islamiyah al-Musallah) is a militant Islamist group with the declared aim of overthrowing the Algerian government and replacing it with an Islamic state.
		Under the leadership of Antar Zouabri, its longest serving "emir" (1996-2002), the GIA became a "takfirist" group, considering Algerian society to be in violation of Islamic precepts, therefore justifying the killing of members of that society as a form of purification of heretical elements.
		The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) splinter faction appears to have eclipsed the GIA since approximately 1998 and is currently assessed by the CIA to be the most effective armed group remaining inside Algeria.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armed_Islamic_Group (1345 words)

	Encyclopedia: Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat
		The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (French Groupe Salafiste pour la PrÃ©dication et le Combat, also known as 'Group for Call and Combat') is an Algerian Islamist terrorist group which aims to overthrow the Algerian state and institute a fundamentalist Islamic republic.
		Hassan Hattab was the leader and founder of the Algerian Islamist rebel group Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC).
		The Armed Islamic Group (GIA, from French Groupe Islamique Armé) is a militant Islamist group with the declared aim of overthrowing the Algerian government and replacing it with an Islamic state.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Salafist-Group-for-Preaching-and-Combat (817 words)

	Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (French Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat) is an Algerian Islamist guerilla group which aims to overthrow the Algerian state and institute some sort of Islamic republic.
		The GSPC was founded by Hassan Hattab, a former Armed Islamic Group (GIA) fighter who broke with the GIA in the late 1990s over its policy of mass-murder of civilians.
		Hattab's group has been linked with the kidnapping and ransom of foreign tourists in Algeria, although he has disavowed the random killings of civilians and foreigners practiced by the GIA.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/GSPC (271 words)

	Lebanonwire.com \| Going south: Al-Qaeda's Algerian allies open up new front in desert
		No clashes were reported, but the incident reinforced indications that elements of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, known by its French acronym GSPC, were moving southward from the organization's known operational zone in eastern Algeria, a major battleground in that country's 12-year-old civil war.
		Soon after, six groups of European adventure tourists, totaling 32 people, were kidnapped in the southern Sahara around the desert town of Tamanrasset by a GSPC faction led by Amari Saifi, also known as "Abderrezak the Para" for the special forces training he underwent in the Algeria Army before he deserted.
		One group of 17 captives was freed by the Algerian military's elite Special Intervention Group in a helicopter-borne rescue mission deep in the desert in May 2003.
	www.lebanonwire.com /0403/04032016DS.asp (1254 words)

	Salafist Group fro Preaching and Combat (GSPC)
		The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) aims to establish an Islamic state within Algeria.
		The group is thought to be financed through the smuggling of items such as vehicles, cigarettes, drugs, and arms.
		The group, led by a former Algerian soldier named Saifi Ammari and nicknamed "the Para," had been tracked across the Sahara from its bases in the Algeria-Mali border area.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/gspc.htm (246 words)

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		Security sources say Abdelouadoud, the group's explosives chief whose real name is Abdelmalek Droukdel, is among the few surviving senior members after Sahraoui and others were killed in a battle with Algerian armed forces in June.
		The appointment is crucial to the survival of the struggling movement as the army has all but crushed a number of rebel groups spread across the country.
		The GSPC was formed by disillusioned members of the ruthless Armed Islamic Group (GIA), notorious for attacking civilians and for slitting its victims' throats.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=7119356&postID=109457140703293881 (902 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| New wave of terror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In a manner characteristic of the crimes against Algerian civilians by members of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), five people travelling in a truck had their throats slit at a fake checkpoint, situated on a small road close to the city of Mascara, 360 kilometres west of Algiers, reported a daily newspaper this Sunday.
		The parents and their three children, aged between four and 11, had their throats slit and were then burnt as the group set fire to their house.
		The spate of massacres has sparked fears that extremist militant groups such as GIA and the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) have reorganised.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/492/re6.htm (709 words)

	Algeria’s GSPC and America’s ‘War on Terror’
		The target of this ongoing operation is the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), a breakaway faction of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA).
		As the war raged, it became apparent that the majority of the Islamist combatants adhered to the rigid and utopian Salafist branch of Islam, which excludes all but one interpretation of the religion -- that revealed by the Prophet Muhammad and his “salaf,” or companions.
		In 1996-1997, however, the GIA was responsible for a rash of massacres in Algeria that claimed the lives of thousands and led to the group’s decline; its indiscriminate tactics alienated it from the majority of Algerians and, surprisingly, from al-Qaeda.
	www.ict.org.il /articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=450 (1182 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat broke off from the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which was the primary terrorist entity during the 1992-2000 insurgency in Algeria.
		While the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat broke off from GIA in 1996, both groups maintain the objective of overthrowing the secular Algerian government and establishing an Islamist state in the country.
		While the group has in fact killed civilians, the numbers are significantly less than the casualties of the GIA.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=3777 (755 words)

	Kidnapped tourists were held by Algerian Islamist group
		In the Algerian capital Wednesday, the Army said the Salafist Group for Call and Combat was responsible for taking the travelers hostage, the official news agency APS reported.
		The Algerian group, known by the French-language acronym GSPC, is one of two main insurgency movements still fighting to topple Algeria's military-backed government and install an Islamic state.
		No group ever publicly claimed responsibility for the kidnappings, opening speculation that the seizures could be in retaliation for the conviction in a Frankfurt court of four Algerians for plotting a failed terror attack on a French Christmas market in 2000.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/911396/posts (988 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Armed Islamic Group
		The group, calling itself al-Islam's Army Brigades, al-Karar Brigade, said on a video that it had co-ordinated with officers and soldiers of "the American intelligence" to obtain a "huge amount of the explosives that were in the al-Qaqa'a facility".
		The Salafists, one of two movements fighting to install an Islamic state in Algeria, were created in a 1998 split with the radical Armed Islamic Group.
		The group, also known by its acronym, GSPC, was founded in 1998 at the urging of bin Laden as an offshoot of the Armed Islamic Group, the violent domestic opposition to the Algerian government...
	politics.surfwax.com /files/Armed_Islamic_Group.html (4436 words)

	US helping N. African states fight militants -DAWN - International; 14 March, 2004
		The focus of US concern is the Algerian-based Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), a militant Muslim group that has declared its allegiance to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network and whose leader is wanted by German prosecutors.
		Salafist operatives move freely across the porous borders in the region, where there is opportunity for unfettered growth and illicit trade in diamonds and weapons under the perennial cloak of the rugged Sahara and fringe Sahel region south of the Sahara, US officials said.
		The Salafist group, in fact, broke off from and since has largely supplanted its Algerian parent organization, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), analysts said.
	www.dawn.com /2004/03/14/int12.htm (579 words)

	deseretnews.com \| 9 arrested in France had plans to attack
		They are suspected of being part of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, an Algerian terrorist group with links to al-Qaida that is fighting to install an Islamic government in Algeria.
		The official said the group was considering attacks on the Paris Metro, one of the city's airports, or the headquarters of the Directorate for Territorial Surveillance in the southwestern part of the city.
		The official said that earlier this month, the Salafist Group had issued a call for action against France, which it described as "our first enemy." The group posted an audio message in Arabic on a Web site that said, "The only way to discipline France is jihad, martyrdom and Islam," according to the official.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,615153539,00.html (475 words)

	A Collection of Thoughts: Salafist Brigade Pledges Support to Al Qaeda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		According to the BBC's profile of Salafist, "Salafi" in Arabic means fundamentalist in the sense of going back to the original texts of Islam.
		Muslims around the world who refer to themselves as Salafists advocate a pure interpretation of the Koran and are inspired by the lives of the first Muslims.
		The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat is one of the country's most hardline and effective groups fighting the government.
	www.jenmartinez.com /mt/archives/000279.html (259 words)

	ipedia.com: Armed Islamic Group Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Armed Islamic Group (GIA, from French Groupe Islamique Armé) is an Islamist, or 'Islamic fundamentalist' group.
		Under the leadership of its longest serving "emir," Antar Zouabri(1996-2002), the GIA became a "takfirist" group, which means that it officially deemed all of Algerian society to be living outside of Islam, and thus worthy of being killed.
		In Algeria, however, the group's repeated targeting and slaughters of civilians had drained popular support (although rumors persist that security forces were involved in some of the massacres, or even controlled the group).
	www.ipedia.com /armed_islamic_group.html (647 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| New chief for Algeria's Islamists
		The new head of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) Abou Mossab Abdelwadoud replaces Nabil Sahraoui, who was killed by the army in June.
		Several leading Salafists died during June's massive army assault on their base in the Kabylie region - but the movement now appears to be regrouping.
		The third leader of the Salafist group, Mr Abdelwadoud was one of the signatories to a statement last year announcing the group's alliance with al-Qaeda.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/africa/3635470.stm (344 words)

	Terrorism - In the Spotlight: The Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)
		The Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) has emerged in recent years as a major source of recruiting and other support for al Qaeda operations in Europe.
		A splinter faction of the Algerian-based Armed Islamic Group (GIA), the GSPC is engaged simultaneously in efforts to topple Algeria's secular government and to organize high-profile attacks against Western interests on the continent.
		In the late 1990s the group carried out a number of operations aimed at government and military targets in the more rural areas of Algeria.
	www.cdi.org /terrorism/gspc-pr.cfm (691 words)

	Algeria arrests leader of Islamic rebel group \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		The arrest of Nourredine Boudiafi, head of the Armed Islamic Group, or GIA, came six months after the killing of Nabil Sahraoui, leader of the larger and more active Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.
		Boudiafi was detained during an operation that started Nov. 5 in Bab Ezzouar, on the outskirts of Algiers, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official APS news agency.
		The three were related to the victims, a man and his 10-and 17-year-old daughters, who were found with their throats slit Dec. 28 in a town near Algiers.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050104/news_1n4algeria.html (348 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Founding Philosophy: The Tunisian Combatant Group (TCG) is a terrorist entity dedicated to the creation of an Islamic state in Tunisia.
		The group is loosely organized and operates in small cells throughout Afghanistan and Western Europe.
		The Tunisian Combatant Group has assisted in recruiting, logistics, and the falsification of documents for the jihadist network in Europe.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=4346 (359 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Profile: Algeria's Salafist group
		There is nothing intrinsic to Salafist thinking that means its adherents are likely to be militant or resort to the use of violence.
		However, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which the Algerian army says kidnapped European tourists in the Sahara desert, is one of the country's most hardline and effective groups fighting the government.
		On the United States' list of "terrorist groups" since 2002, it is said to have links to al-Qaeda as well as extensive ties in Europe, the US and the Middle East.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3027621.stm (466 words)

	Middle East Online
		The GIA and the much larger Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) both rejected a partial amnesty under President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's 1999 reconciliation pact, and are said to be the only two Islamic extremist groups still active in Algeria.
		The GIA and a rival Islamic extremist group, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), have both rejected a partial amnesty offered in 1999 by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika as part of a national reconciliation programme to end the violence.
		Allegedly linked to Osama bin Laden's militant al-Qaeda group, the GSPC is the best armed and organized armed group in Algeria, with an estimated 400 members, according to a security source.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=7888 (536 words)

	afrol News - Algeria "breaks up GIA terrorist network"
		The GIA was the most feared Islamist terrorist group in the mid-1990s, when it attacked schools, army posts, the police and civilians believed to be pro-government.
		The group declared a holy war on infidels and all foreigners, causing an exodus from Algeria.
		The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) - a group breaking away from the GIA some years ago - has meanwhile become the most active terrorist group in Algeria and the region.
	www.afrol.com /articles/15128 (639 words)

	The Daily Star - Politics - Algeria kills head of terror group
		The death of the head of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat marked a major victory for Algerian government efforts to suppress Islamic terrorism and left his armed extremist organization with no clear leader.
		The Salafists' actual strength is unknown, although experts believe the group is small, with several hundred fighters.
		The Salafist group is one of two movements fighting to install an Islamic state in Algeria.
	www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=5462 (799 words)

	News -- FG uncovers 10,000-man gang in Niger Delta
		Government also expressed concern over the activities of an Algerian terrorist group, the Salafist Group For Preaching and Combat (GSPC), believed to be affiliates to the dreaded Al-Qaeda, which it said has recruited and trained many Nigerians on destructive and sabotage acts against the country's interests.
		This area has remained volatile with incessant disruption of oil exploration activities, kidnapping and killing of oil workers.” “This group whose total strength is estimated at 10, 000 is equipped with sophisticated weapons that facilitate its attacks against oil related targets especially oil installations in the area.
		It is instructive that three Nigerians were among the GSPC combatants captured by Chadian soldiers during an exchange of fire between Chadian forces and GSPC terrorists in April 2004.
	odili.net /news/source/2005/oct/16/399.html (627 words)

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