By Jeune Afrique
Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia at Algiers airport on 10 December 2011. © AFP Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia said the willingness of the Algerian authorities to “fight terrorism until its eradication”. A statement came a day after an attack against the police of Tamanrasset. In the aftermath of a suicide car bombing against a police brigade in Tamanrasset (2000 km south of Algiers), Algerian Prime Minister is mounted to the plate Sunday to embody the firm against terrorism. With a choice of words far from trivial: Algeria is determined to “fight terrorism until its eradication,” said Ouyahia, well clearly that arises in the spiritual heir “eradicator” of jihadism. A trend that was particularly embodied by General Mohamed Lamari, former Chief of Staff of the Algerian army, died on February 13. Eradicating terrorism is inevitable, according Ouyahia, “that the name of the terrorist group is” Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) “,” Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) “or else,” he said on the sidelines of the opening of the spring session of the National Assembly. A “crime punishable” The suicide car bomb on Saturday, perpetrated against the gendarmerie of Tamanrasset, caused a stir because the city is home to the Committee of Staff Joint Operations (CRIC), established in April 2010 by Algeria, Mali, Mauritania and Niger to better fight against insecurity in the Sahel. And it’s also the first time a bomb is committed in the region of Algeria’s border with Niger and Mali. Evidence that the recent rapprochement of “countries of fields” and the strengthening of their cooperation against AQIM did not leave indifferent the Salafist group. “Terrorism is a crime sentenced
