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Algeria: August 22, 2003

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  One of the main Algerian rebel groups, the GSPC (Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat), took credit for kidnapping, and holding for ransom in southern Algeria and Mali, 32 Europeans. The GSPC announcement made no mention of kidnapping for ransom. 

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