Batna, 28 March (AKI) - An Algerian court has handed down a 20-year prison sentence in absentia to Abel Malik Drukdal, leader of al-Qaeda in North Africa - formerly the al-Qaeda linked Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GPSC) - and to 10 other operatives from the terror network. The court in the southwestern town of Batna also offered a 5,000 dollar bounty for information leading to the arrest of Drukdal, 37, who is also known as Abu Musab Abdel Wudud. | Now you just have top catch him. Or kill him. Or catch him and kill him |
The GSPC's historic leader Hasan Hattab was earlier this month sentenced to death in absentia by an Algerian court, despite having in 2005 renounced the armed struggle following a government amnesty for Islamic militants.