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Al-Qaeda In Islamic Maghreb Threatens Algerian Journalists

The editor of the Algerian El-Shorouq El-Yawmi daily, as well as a security correspondent at the paper, have received threatening messages, by phone and by email, from individuals claiming to be members of the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb.

The messages contained threats to kidnap and kill them.

Source: El-Shorouq El-Yawmi, Algeria, June 18, 2007

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