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Algeria: Former Islamist leaders call on rebels to give up

Three former leaders of the now extinct Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) late Friday called on armed Islamists still active in Algeria to lay down their weapons and surrender.

Omar Abdelber, Abu Zakaria and Mosaab Abu Daoud issued their appeal on national radio so that the armed Islamist rebels might benefit from a charter for peace and reconciliation which offers amnesty under certain conditions.

The trio said that Amari Saifi alias Abderrazak El-Para, arrested in 2006, had for the first time sent a letter to the still active armed guerrillas in which he praised the initiatives by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to restore peace and security, APS news agency reported.

Abdelber gave an assurance that armed elements prepared to repent could "trust" the Algerian authorities, going from the experience of those who had already given themselves up.

In 2007 the GSPC took up the name of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb, a group which in February claimed the kidnapping of two Canadian diplomats and four European tourists.

Four were released on April 22 but a British and a Swiss national remain in captivity. Malian negotiators said they were in the hands of the "group headed by Abdelhamid Abu Zeid", normally known by the UN as Abid Hammadou. (FOXNews) (AFP)

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