The UK on 7 January turned the spotlight on Algeria's links with terrorism, after police revealed that they had arrested five Algerians caught producing a deadly poison, ricin, in London. Most of the terrorist suspects arrested in Europe since 11 September have been north African, with the largest proportion being Algerian. Many militant Islamists who began an armed struggle with the Algiers government in 1992 have fled to Europe to escape government forces.
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