The Chadian army has engaged in fighting with members of the Algerian Islamic group, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). A Chadian army unit intercepted the GSPC members in the northern Tibesti region, near the border with Libya, on Monday and engaged them in combat, a source close to Chad’s military said on Tuesday. The fighting was still raging on Tuesday, he said.
Chad doesn’t share a border with Algeria, so it looks like the GSPC’s getting more internationalized ever since they merged with al-Qaeda. They planned to go after the Paris-Dakar Rally too, IIRC.
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