http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=18380
Mathieu Guidère
"There is an alarming development in Northern Africa in the growth of radical Islamic groups - as indicated by a new and official alliance between al-Qaida and the Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). Al-Qaida’s number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, used the fifth anniversary of the 11 September attacks on the United States to announce on video that the Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) had officially joined al-Qaida. He had a message for France (despite its government’s refusal to follow the United States into Iraq as part of the war on terror: “This blessed union will be a bone in the throat of the American and French crusaders . . . and will bring fear to the hearts of the miscreant sons of France.”
