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'Algerian farmers killed by Islamic group'
IOL ^ | 5.1.04

Posted on 05/02/2004 10:20:31 PM PDT by ambrose

'Algerian farmers killed by Islamic group'

May 01 2004 at 12:39PM

Algiers - Islamic extremists killed four farmers as they worked in their fields in Algeria, national radio said on Saturday.

The killings took place on Friday in the Medea region, around 80km south of the capital Algiers, the report said. The radio gave no further details.

Earlier reports, published on Wednesday, said that three people were killed by Islamic militants on Tuesday in the western region of Tlemcen.

Violence by Islamic extremists in Algeria is estimated to have killed about 150 000 people since 1992, but the rate of killings has declined sharply in the past two years.

Since the start of this year around 150 people have been reported killed, down from just over 360 in the same four months of 2003. - Sapa-AFP


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: algeria; extremists; islam; islamic; killed; killings; militants; muslims; violence

1 posted on 05/02/2004 10:20:31 PM PDT by ambrose
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To: ambrose
My guess is that there is more to this story.
We'll see...


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2 posted on 05/02/2004 10:31:24 PM PDT by Cindy
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The MORE is Moslem fanatacism and the 150,000 is never publicized because it doesnt fit into the bien oensant thinking that Israel is the problem.
3 posted on 05/02/2004 10:56:21 PM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: Cindy
The MORE is Moslem fanaticism and the 150,000 is never publicized because it doesnt fit into the bien oensant thinking that Israel is the problem.
4 posted on 05/02/2004 10:56:54 PM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: the Real fifi
The Palestinians are used a pawns by Arab dictatorships to deflect attention away from their own oppressive governments.

The Arab dictatorships, of which makes up 100% of their goverments, NEEDS hatred of Israel to distrct their masses from their true oppressors - themselves.

Arabs CANNOT make peace with Israel. Without Israel to blame for all the death, poverty, destruction, misery, and oppression across Islam, who will the Islamic people blame?

5 posted on 05/02/2004 11:01:25 PM PDT by Adam36
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To: the Real fifi
It's the fault of George W. Bush and his Jewish overlords.

</sarcasm alert

6 posted on 05/02/2004 11:18:36 PM PDT by TheMole
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To: ambrose
...but the rate of killings has declined sharply in the past two years.

It appears the Islamofacists are a little too busy in other parts of the world right now, to be pickin' off poor old farmers working in the fields.

7 posted on 05/02/2004 11:38:23 PM PDT by dynamitehack
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