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ALGIERS, Jan 31 (KUNA) -- An Algerian court on Sunday condemned two
Moroccans for five years each for contacting the recruitment networks of
Al-Qaeda to join the armed group.
The Criminal court sentenced each of Abdul Ghani Al-Makna and Laqrine Salah
Al-Din for five years in prison for belonging to a terrorist organization and
encouraging terrorist acts.
Al-Makna confessed during the investigation that he entered Algeria with a
group of Moroccans to join armed groups linked to Al-Qaeda in Tizi Ouzou and
Boumerdes regions, east of Algeria.
Salah Al-Din confessed he had access to a network of extremist recruit
fighters for Al-Qaeda at Mohammed VI mosque in Morocco.
The Algerian security forces managed to arrest the Moroccans on August 20,
2008 in central Tizi Ouzou, and found possession of documents proving
communicating with Al-Qaeda recruitment network in Morocco.
The documents include information about previous recruit missions in
Morocco, Libya, Tunisia and Mauritania. (end)
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