In May, FIS suffered an apparent blow as Abderrezak Redjam, Mohammed Said, the exiled Anwar Haddam, and the MEI's Said Makhloufi joined the GIA; since the GIA had been issuing death threats against them since November 1993, this came as a surprise to many observers, who interpreted it either as the result of intra-FIS competition or as an attempt to change the GIA's course from within.
Algeria | Universal Music Group | Warner Music Group | Coxeter group | British Armed Forces | United States Armed Forces | Volkswagen Group | Group of 77 | RTL Group | girl group | BT Group | ABB Group | Group One | Virgin Group | Thales Group | ING Group | group | Rio Tinto Group | Bloomsbury Group | Penguin Group | Carlsberg Group | Borders Group | Arup Group Limited | Benetton Group | French Algeria | Stagecoach Group | LMFAO (group) | Anschutz Entertainment Group | Tata Group | Rootes Group |
In 1996, in Roubaix, the unit neutralized a 14-terrorists group tied to the GIA, suspected of several bloody bank robberies, murders and a missed attack against a G7 meeting in Lille.