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Army Command bans vehicles from remote Saharan paths at night across 6 southern provinces
14.05.2008

The Army Command southern Algeria, has taken new measures aiming at fighting terrorism and smuggling, as new control devices allowing its forces searching vehicles and suspicious people in the Sahara. These security measures banning cars and trucks from taking non asphalted paths, across 6 southern provinces, while 20 crossing points taken by terrorists have been blocked to vehicles. In emergency cases vehicles owner obliged taking such roads should apply for a leave only the local security services are empowered granting it.

The provinces concerned by the new measures are namely Bechar, Tindouf, Adrar, Tamenrasset, and Illizi. These measures are at the aim of cracking down on the terrorist groups spreading through the Sahara, said a well-informed source, adding that the Army Command southern Algeria, and is intending blocking ways the terrorists use to enter Algeria. In this regard, the Army forces will conduct routine patrols to control the main roads used by terrorists, using new control devices enabling them programming patrols at night searching any suspicious object.

Quelle: El Khabar


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Birgitt

Da der El Khabar Artikel nicht mehr online erreichbar ist, hier nachfolgend noch der Link zu ANSAmed:

ALGERIA: SECURITY IN SAHARA, BAN ON NIGHT MOVEMENT
13.05.2008

ALGIERS - Ban on the night movement on secondary roads throughout Algerian Sahara and limited access to 20 areas in the region considered risky are the measures imposed by Algerian army in the fight against terrorism and trafficking in southern Algeria, El Khabar daily wrote today ... mehr

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Birgitt

doch, doch. im Archiv vom 13.5. ist die Seite noch aufrufbar.
http://www.elkhabar.com/quotidienFrEn/? ... 20&idc=114
Ich versuche herauszufinden, was die Regelung für den Tourismus bedeutet, habe aber noch nicht in Erfahrung bringen können.

Viele Grüsse, Yves