Justice Minister Louh said Algerian authorities have identified the suspects who beheaded French tourist Hervé Gourdel on Sept. 24 in the Djurdjura Mountains. Gourdel was kidnapped on Sept. 21 by Jund al-Khalifa fi Ard al-Jazayer (“Soldiers of the Caliphate in Algeria”), a newly emerged terror group led by Abdelmalek El Gouri a.k.a. Khaled Abou Souleiman, a former AQIM commander who has sworn allegiance to the Islamic State. Some 2,000 soldiers have been deployed to the area to search for Gourdel’s body and to arrest the terrorist suspects; Louh said the investigation is continuing.
