Algerian court sentences al-Qaeda militant for life

An Algerian court Monday sentenced for life a person who worked as a judge in Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb countries. The criminal court in the eastern Boumerdas province sentenced Abul Al-Abbas who went outlawed in 1993 and was the judge of the terrorist groups in central Algeria. He was accused of forming an armed terrorist group, deliberate killing, kidnapping, forging official documents and placing explosives in public facilities. Abul Al-Abbas was arrested in an ambush in Boumerdas in 2010. He was carrying a gun, ammunition, two IDs, IDs of security personnel and five mobile phones. He confessed he become outlawed when he was 23 years old, and that he was appointed a just for the terrorist groups in 2002.