Algeria dismantles a terrorist cell affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood
Algeria announced yesterday the dismantling of a terrorist cell operating for the Rachad terrorist organization in the province of Oran in northwest Algeria, 432 km from the capital.
The Algerian Ministry of Defense said in a statement that in the context of the fight against terrorism and acts of sabotage targeting the country’s security and stability, the National Gendarmerie (an armed force affiliated with the Ministry of Defense) in Oran managed to dismantle a terrorist cell active for the Rachad terrorist organization and arrested nine people, including dangerous elements, for which legal action must be taken.
The statement said that the detainees face charges related to involvement in a terrorist organization that targets state security, national unity and institutional stability, using information and communication technologies to recruit people and support the group’s criminal activities, and disseminating its extremist ideas through propaganda that harms the higher interest and national defense.
The Algerian Ministry of Defense noted that this operation comes within the context of the ongoing efforts of the competent authorities of the Algerian army to cut off all means of supporting terrorism and organized crime in its various forms, to secure the security and stability of the homeland and to protect its national unity.
The Rachad Brotherhood is the fifth terrorist organization after the Algerian Salvation Front, al-Qaeda, and ISIS on Algeria’s terror list; was officially designated as a “terrorist organization” in May.
Rachad is a terrorist Muslim Brotherhood movement that emerged from the terrorist Salvation Front, which killed tens of thousands of Algerians during the 1990s in what is known as the “black decade”.
