Terrorists kill soldiers, behead bar patron in new round of Algeria clashes
2008-08-31
Some 40 al-Qaeda-linked terrorists ambushed and killed five Algerian soldiers and two communal guards Friday (August 29th) in Batna (350k east Algiers), local and international press reports said, Another 14 soldiers were injured in the same attack. Also Friday, three terrorists were killed in an ambush in Lakhdaria, 100k east of Algiers, including Abdel Mourad Djabber (aka Abu Hodheïfa), Liberté reported. A 4-year-old girl also died in the crossfire. Djabber is the alleged mastermind of the Bouira suicide bombing that claimed the lives of 12 people earlier this month.
In other news, militants disguised as police officers raided a bar in the town of Boghni (120k east of Algiers) on Thursday, robbed patrons and beheaded one of them after discovering he was employed as a prison guard, El Watan reported.
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Derrouazi Sonia Posted 2008-09-01
In our beautiful, Muslim country, our brothers and sisters are dying by the day under the thumbs of unscrupulous terrorists. How many people from 1991 until now were pointlessly murdered? How long must we endure this barbarism? How long will it take for this mess to finally be over with? I remember in horror how this village was woken up in the early morn and not a soul was left alive. The entire village was decimated: men, women, children and the elderly were all knifed down. And what right did they have???!!! Since then, nothing has changed. Everyday, the media makes us part of all these pointless murders, yet the world remains deaf to the suffering and all the injustice. The blood of innocent Algerians continues to flow over the land of Algeria.
Abou-Hamza Posted 2008-09-03
In a statement released last Sunday on the Internet, an Egyptian Islamic group described the suicide bombers as “cowardly” and strongly condemned the suicide bombings that recently ravaged Algeria’s cities. The Egyptian Islamic group also judged the methods used to by Al-Qaeda to be “infantile”, qualifying the GSPC, which is affiliated with Al-Qaeda, as “traitors”, summoning its members to “lay down their weapons” as soon as possible. This Egyptian group definitively decided to renounce violence, address the state and call upon the GSPC that they stop carrying out terrorist actions directed at civilians and security forces. This Islamist group recommended to the GSPC that they stop with this “bloodshed and any actions that could lead to the destruction of the state, the economy and anarchy”. The GSPC terrorists were qualified by this document’s authors as “boys” who lacked “courage, heroism, bravery” and “treacherously prey upon defenceless people.” There you have it, the language of ordinary people that exposes the terrorist group for what they are: guilty in our eyes of the worst cowardice. No one, until now, dared to qualify these lawless and godless people as “traitors and cowards”.
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