{"id":21448,"date":"2015-11-27T09:34:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T09:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gen-hassan-algeria-ex-counter-terror-chief-jailed\/"},"modified":"2015-11-27T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T09:34:07","slug":"gen-hassan-algeria-ex-counter-terror-chief-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gen-hassan-algeria-ex-counter-terror-chief-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Hassan: Algeria ex-counter-terror chief jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Algeria&#8217;s former counter-terrorism chief has been sentenced to five years in prison for destroying documents and disobeying military orders, the APS state news agency reports.}<\/p>\n<p>Abdelkader Ait-Ouarabi, known as Gen Hassan, was convicted at a closed-door military tribunal on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyers described him as the victim of a ferocious clan war at the top of Algerian politics.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Hassan played a leading role for two decades in Algeria&#8217;s civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Following the military&#8217;s annulment of an election win by Islamists in 1992, Algeria&#8217;s Intelligence and Security Directorate (DRS) was heavily involved in the conflict in which it is estimated that more than 150,000 people died.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Hassan&#8217;s imprisonment follows the sacking in September of Mohamed Mediene, who had led the DRS for 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has led a gradual purge in the country&#8217;s security elite over the past two years, correspondents say. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-9407 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/terror-2.jpg\" alt=\"Gen Hassan had great influence over the security forces during Algeria&#039;s civil war \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>SOURCE:BBC:[Gen Hassan: Algeria ex-counter-terror chief jailed->Gen Hassan: Algeria ex-counter-terror chief jailed]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Algeria&#8217;s former counter-terrorism chief has been sentenced to five years in prison for destroying documents and disobeying military orders, the APS state news agency reports.} Abdelkader Ait-Ouarabi, known as Gen Hassan, was convicted at a closed-door military tribunal on Thursday. 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