ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian news reports say government forces have arrested three suspected terrorists, including an official of al-Qaida’s North African branch.
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State news agency APS says army special forces arrested Necib Tayeb, the head of the al-Qaida-linked cell’s “judicial commission,” and two others Aug. 15 as they traveled in an all-terrain vehicle near the city of Berriane, 570 km south of Algiers.
APS, citing unnamed “well-informed sources,” said Monday that weapons and “very important” documents were also seized in the arrest.
Al-Qaida’s North African branch is known as AQIM, or al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.
