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al-Qaida Brand Helps Algerian Militants

Tuesday, December 18, 2007 2:02:00 PM
By ELAINE GANLEY

Abdelhafed Achab holds a book in his bookstore in Algiers Saturday Dec.15, 2007. The bookstore once served as a gathering point for sympathizers of the now-banned fundamentalist party, the Islamic Salvation Front, that was the main vector for the initial uprising. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)BOUROUBA, Algeria (AP) - Nabil Belkacemi was 15 when he disappeared in April.

The next time his family saw him, five months later, he was a smiling jihadist holding a Kalashnikov on the Web site of an Algerian group calling itself al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa.

"He was a such a nice boy. There was no sign of this," Dalila Belkacemi said of her son — who rammed a truck laden with explosives into a coast guard barracks on Sept. 8, killing 30.


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