Abdelhak Layada

Abdelhak Layada (Arabic: عبد الحق ليادة‎, born 1959), also known as Abu Adlane, was one of the founders of Algeria's militant Islamist group Armed Islamic Group (GIA) during the Algerian Civil War, and led it after the death of Mohamed Allel ("Moh Leveilly").

He declared his group independent of the existing Islamic Armed Movement (MIA) in January 1993. He was arrested in Morocco and handed over to the Algerian authorities on 29 September 1993. He was sentenced to death in June 1995. He claims to regret the killing of innocent civilians for which the GIA became notorious, blaming it on his successors who controlled the GIA while he was in prison.

Layada was released from prison on 12 March 2006 under president Abdelaziz Bouteflika's "Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation". He now lives in his previous home in Baraki, not far south of Algiers.

References

"Islamist leader freed in Algeria". BBC News. 2006-03-13. Retrieved 2010-01-01.
"In Algeria, amnesty, but not forgiveness". International Herald Tribune. June 28, 2006.
"Le fondateur du GIA écrit à Bouteflika: "Le Maroc a soutenu les groupes armés"". Le Soir d'Algérie. 13 February 2005.
"Le sanglant parcours du fondateur du GIA" (PDF). Le Soir d'Algérie. 13 March 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-05-17.

Alleged militants in the War on Terror who have lived in Algeria

Deceased persons listed in italics.

Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat	Nabil Sahraoui Samir Moussaab Abu Doha Rabah Kadre Slimane Khalfaoui Mohamed Bensakhria

Held at Guantanamo Bay	Mustafa Ahmed Hamlily Algerian Six Bensayah Belkacem Hadj Boudella Lakhdar Boumediene Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar Mustafa Ait Idr Mohammed Nechle

Alleged al-Qaeda / al-Jihad members	Abu Sulayman Jazairi Ahmed Brahim¹

Armed Islamic Group	Abdelhak Layada² Djamel Zitouni

Others	Laid Saidi Abdelmajid Dahoumane Djamel Beghal Ahmed Ressam Kamel Daoudi

¹ Currently imprisoned. ² Released after serving sentence.

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