Al-Qaida number two calls for attacks on France

Al-Qaida number two Ayman al-Zawahiri called for attacks against France in a video and designated an Algerian insurgency movement as the terrorist organisation’s armed wing in the European country, a terror expert said today.

Anne Giudicelli, who watched the one-hour-16-minute-long video on the internet, said Al-Zawahiri identified the Algerian group as the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, known by its French initials GSPC.