Bombers seek "second Iraq" in Algeria-Islamist

[bemildred]

Source: Reuters

ALGIERS, April 16 (Reuters) - The founder of the group that claimed responsibility for last week's deadly Algiers bombings called on militants to put down their weapons under a government amnesty and stop trying to turn Algeria into a "second Iraq".

Hassan Hattab made the comments in a letter to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika published on Monday by Echorouk daily after three bombs exploded in Algiers on Wednesday killing 33 people.

He described the group that claimed responsibility for the bombings, which changed its name in January from the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) to al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, as "a small group that wants to transform Algeria into a second Iraq".

"I call on the militants to give up the fight and join national reconciliation," said Hattab, also known as Abu Hamza.

Read more: http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L16115591

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So, Iraq is the terrorist utopia now.

[jmc247]

1. Interesting

[Turbineguy]

2. Maybe they studied

how Bush won the election in 2000 and figure to use the same approach.