Algerian court to try 9 for terror offences

The trial of nine individuals suspected of being involved in the formation of an armed militant group in 2006, and accused of planting explosives on a road in al-Wasat will begin at an Algiers criminal court on Monday, judicial sources have confirmed. The defendants were detained after their colleague, L Samir, handed himself into authorities in 2009, and provided some crucial information on militant groups operating in ??central Algiers, Tizi Ouzou, Azazga and Tower Manaal. Samir also disclosed the names of the suspects accused of killing officers of the Municipal Guard in the area of Bagalia, in the province of Boumerdes, 50 kilometres from Algiers.