Founder of Major Terror Group Surrenders

January 7, 2007: As Algeria and the U.S. exchange information on Algerian Islamic terrorists, they find a common pattern. Many Algerian terrorists, who have "disappeared" from view in Algeria, are showing up in Iraq (where they are killed, captured or mentioned by prisoners), in a Western prison, or under surveillance by Western security agencies. Fewer Algerians are going ti Iraq, apparently after noting the high probability of getting killed or captured there. Algerian terrorists are trying to establish themselves in the West (Europe, Canada, Australia.) The GSPC members share information via the Internet on how to work the legal and social welfare systems of Western countries, in order to stay out of jail, and get the local governments to pay for living expenses. But known GSPC members are closely watched, and know they will be picked up if they are caught planning an terrorist operations. GSPC members are also active in Arab countries, but this is more dangerous. Especially in North Africa, counter-terror operations are very active, and effective. Morocco and Libya are particularly energetic in hunting, and catching, Islamic terrorists (who threaten the local governments). Meanwhile, the GSPC leadership insists that it will carry on the struggle to establish an Islamic state in North Africa, and, in a telling and pathetic gesture, publicly calls on Osama bin Laden for "instructions."