GSPC activities

Ech Chourouk: Two municipal guards were killed and had their weapons stolen near the Ain en-Nsour Hospital in the Zakkar mountains of Miliana on Friday night.

El Khabar reports that, through its website, the GSPC claims responsibility for the killing of 13 customs officers on 7 April in El-Maniaa. Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni specifically blamed the local "emir" Mokhtar Belmokhtar, nicknamed "Khaled Abou'l-Abbas".