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October 4, 2005
Algeria: Crackdown on Islamic Rebels
We reported earlier on the referendum in Algeria which took place on Thursday 29 September. This was a referendum to offer amnesty to Islamic rebels who, in more than a decade of armed insurrection, killed 150,000 people, mostly civilians. On Saturday, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat or GSPC announced on a website that "The Jihad will go on ... we have promised God to continue the Jihad and the combat."
It appears they have been good to their word. On Sunday, Reuters announced that three civilians had been killed by rebels. So in response, yesterday, it was reported on Mercury News that the government's interior minister, Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni, has announced a crackdown. The crackdown is aimed at 800 to 1000 recalcitrant militants, Zerhouni announced.
The killing of the three civilians after the referendum was the handiwork of GSPC. On Saturday, two people in a car ran over a homb-made land mine planted by the rebels in the southwestern province of Medea. In a separate incident, a 62 breeder of animals was decapitated in the M'Sila province,
The only consolation in this is that ten members of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat surrendered to the military in Khemis Meliana on Thursday evening, 60 miles west of the capital Algiers.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 4, 2005 6:06 AM
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