Algeria confirms GSPC guerrilla chief has surrendered
Fri Oct 5, 3:54 PM ET
Algeria's interior minister confirmed here on Friday that one of the most hardline guerrilla chiefs opposed to Algeria's government, Hassan Hattab of the GSPC, has surrendered to police.

Hattab "gave himself up" to the authorities on September 22, Yazid Zerhouni told reporters after security talks in Paris with his French counterpart Michele Alliot-Marie.

His surrender was reported on Friday by Arab daily newspapers Ech-Chourouk and Al-Hayat. Officials had declined to confirm the reports.

Hattab, 40, founded the GSPC almost a decade ago at the instigation of Osama bin Laden, and his movement was soon put on Washington's blacklist of terrorist organisations.

According to unconfirmed reports last month, Hattab was scheduled to make an appearance on prime-time evening television news at an unspecified date to issue an appeal for an end to all guerilla violence in Algeria.

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