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Islamist militants responsible for an ongoing
hostage crisis in Algeria on Friday threatened further attacks,
according to Mauritanian news agency ANI.
All Algerians were called upon to "stay away from foreign
headquarters," said a spokesman for the Blood Signatories group,
affiliated to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
"We will be there when no one expects us" he said, adding that
militants from Canada, Egypt, Mali, Algeria, Niger and Mauretania had
taken part in the hostage-taking.
According to the ANI report, the leader of the Sons of the Sahara
for Islamic Justice group, Lamine Boucheneb, known as Taher, was
among those killed in the Algerian-army operation to free the
hostages.
