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Algeria/Terrorism: AQIM senior official urges followers to target Algeria
Abou Oubaïda Youssef Al-Annabi, chairman of AQIM’s senior officials council urged all “Muslims” from North Africa to join the terrorist organization and to target “Jewsih and Christian interests in Algeria.”

Those threats were made public Monday in a 30-minute audio statement released on Islamic Internet forums.

In a message that comes a few days after the end of the month of Ramadan, AQIM leader called jihadist groups to unite in order to defeat the enemy and to provoke “more blood and destruction.”

Lastly, Abou Oubaïda Youssef Al-Annabi, who greeted fellow militants in Palestine, Caucasus, Iraq and Afghanistan for Eid, urged all Muslims to fight to free the cities of Ceuta and Melilla as well as Andalusia.

European Strategic Intelligence Center