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TRIPOLI: One of the wealthiest and most powerful armed Islamists in north Africa, Amar Saifi, was on Monday behind bars in his home country of Algeria following the intervention of Libya's Muammar Qadhafi. Saifi was the number two in Algeria's main Islamist organisation, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, and responsible for the kidnapping of 32 foreign tourists in the Sahara desert last year. His group had pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden and he ran, in effect, a private army that roamed across the desert frontiers of several north African states. Mr Qadhafi received praise from Washington for handing over Saifi to the Algerian Government. Saifi was reported to have been captured several months ago by a rebel, non-Islamist group from Chad, and it was unclear how he turned up in Libya last week. —
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