Algiers, 12 June (AKI) - Algeria's Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat, a militant group which has sworn allegiance to al-Qaeda, released a video, broadcast by Islamic forums, in which it announces the beheading of a prison guard who was recently kidnapped. Mohammed as Said Morsali works as a guard in the prison of Tizi Ouzou in Kabilia. It is the first time that an Algerian militant group has broadcast a video, emulating Ansar al-Sunna and al-Qaeda groups in Iraq.
The first part of the video shows the man as he identifies himself and says he is an employee of the Algerian justice ministry. Said Morsali then denounces the condition in which Islamic militants are detained in the prison where he works. He also recalls in the video how 27 militants suffocated to death as they were travelling in a police truck. The video doesn't however show the execution. |