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Islamists urge war on colonists
09/01/2007 15:23 - (SA)
Dubai - An Islamist group linked to al-Qaeda has called on Algerians to carry out attacks on French nationals, in a message posted on Tuesday on the internet.
"Fight the nationals of France and the agents of the Crusaders occupying our land," said Abu Mussab Abdel Wadoud, leader of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC).
"Our fathers and our ancestors fought against the French Crusaders who were driven out in humiliation," the GSPC chief said in the message dated January 3 that appeared on Islamist websites.
"France which left through the door ... is coming back today through the window in Algeria," he said.
"America is also coming back through the door to share with France the spoils of our riches and control of our destiny, with the complicity of the thief of the house, (Algerian President Abdelaziz) Bouteflika," he said.
He accused the president of "fighting against Islam under the banner of the leading heretic, the United States, and forging ties of friendship with the enemy of yesterday, France".
GSPC, a small armed group formed in 1998 by dissidents of the Islamic Armed Group, is the only one left of radical movements that waged an insurgency against the secular Algerian state from 1992.
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