Thursday, September 21, 2006

France reacts cautiously to videotaped threat / Expatica, 14 Sep 2006

http://digbig.com/4nadw
"A radical Algerian Islamist group that has singled out France as its sworn enemy officially placed itself at al-Qaeda's orders, vowing to support the terror network's war on "crusaders" worldwide. The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), an armed movement which has long been linked to Al-Qaeda, formally pledged allegiance to the network's chief Osama bin Laden in a statement released online. "Our soldiers are at his call so that he may strike who and where he likes," said a text signed by the group's leader Abu Mossaab Abdelwadud, who also vowed to pursue the group's "jihad" or holy war against the Algerian authorities."