Suspected (Islamic) Militants Kill 16

Associated Press ^ | 4/24/2002 | Associated Press

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ALGIERS, Algeria - Attackers believed to be Islamic militants killed 16 people, including eight children, in an assault Wednesday on nomadic families, the official Algerian news service reported.

The massacre occurred near Tiaret, about 220 miles west of the North African nation's capital, the APS agency said.

No group claimed responsibility, but the Armed Islamic Group, Algeria's most radical insurgency movement, is active in the region. On Sunday, assailants killed three shepherds nearby.

More than 120,000 people have died in Algeria's Islamic insurgency, which broke out in 1992 when the army canceled elections that a fundamentalist party was expected to win.

In an effort to reconcile the North African nation, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika promised amnesty to rebels willing to turn in their weapons. The army has been hunting down those who refused the offer.

[monday]

"I was making a point that blew by your head."

I was just curious as to who the FIS is killing? Usually people kill their enemys or people they hate. I hear of atrocities over there all the time, but I could never figure out why the FIS was killing all these apparently innocent people. Thought you might know?

[Dan Day]

What in the hell is a "secular muslim"?

(Yawn....) Since you seem too ignorant to open your eyes I'll let you stay in your little world of black and white where everything makes sense to you and complex issues are so obviously beyond your grasp. It must make your head hurt im sure.

Since you seem interested in throwing insults at me for doing nothing but posing a simple question to you, and making all sorts of assumptions about me that can't be inferred from the question, and since you're obviously doing this in an attempt to avoid actually answering the question, I'm going to write you off as a puerile, bad-mannered troll who doesn't belong here among us adults.

Now where's that Abuse button? Ah, there it is...

[Bob J]

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