ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT REDOUBLES EFFORTS TO COMBAT MONEY LAUNDERING
March 1st, 2012
BY KACI RACELMA, IN TIZI OUZOU, ALGERIA
A TERRORIST attack on March 3 targeted the local headquarters of Algeria's national rural police force 'El Dark El Watani' (in the southern Algerian border town of Tamanrasset with a booby-trapped car, leaving 23 people wounded. The attack, said sources in the Algerian security forces, indicated the success of their efforts to prevent money for terrorist groups being moved across the Mali and Niger frontiers, not far from this mainly Tuareg city.
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