Before Sunday , the Algerian group Jund al Islam was little known . The recent beheading of a French hiker changed that . Even well-protected commercial ventures , like the uranium mine in Niger owned by French company Aveva and the In Amenas refinery in southern Algeria , have been subject to terror attacks . The group cited an appeal by their spokesman Ali al - Adnani . That appeal was for his followers to ' ` ` the spiteful and filthy French ''
Before Sunday , the Algerian group Jund al Islam was little known . The recent beheading of a French hiker changed that . The group cited an appeal by their spokesman Ali al - Adnani . That appeal was for his followers to ' ` ` the spiteful and filthy French ''