ALGIERS, APRIL 30 - An Algerian imam has been sentenced to two years in prison for defending terrorist practices. The sentence was handed down by the court in Boumerdes, in Cabilia (50km east of Algiers), which is one of the areas worst-hit by attacks from Islamist armed groups. The Algerian press reports that the imam was arrested in 2008 as he tried to make contact with a member of the terrorist group, who had in fact been killed a week earlier by security forces. Mosques in the country - which in the 1990s formed a favourite pulpit for fundamentalists to incite revolt and violence against the state - are now under heavy surveillance. (ANSAmed). Read more ...
Source: ANSAmed
H/T: Jihad Watch
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