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Article: Merger with Al Qaeda deepens threat from Algerian radicals; Italian police said Monday they broke up a cell with ties to Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 3, 2006
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Byline: Aron Lund Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
ALGIERS, ALGERIA -- It was a quiet Ramadan evening, the sunset casting a red glow on the white colonial facades along the city's seafront. With the call of the muezzin, the Muslim prayer crier, Algerians had returned home to break the fast with friends and family, leaving the city nearly deserted.
During this holy month of Ramadan, the quiet has become reassuring. Many here are anxious; the Islamist radicals of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, better known by the French acronym GSPC, have threatened attacks in the capital during Ramadan.
Already, officials blame the group ...