Six dead in Algeria terror attack

Jerusalem Post ^ | Jun 23, 2002 | AP

[Prodigal Son]

ALGIERS Three gunmen fired on a group of youths playing soccer at an Algerian seaside resort, killing six and injuring three, the North African nation's official news service said Sunday.

The attack Saturday evening at Zeralda, a busy Mediterranean resort 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of the capital Algiers, threatens to unsettle the start of Algeria's summer holiday season.

One of the three injured was in a serious condition, the APS news agency said.

It said the shootings took place near Zeralda's tennis club, where a similar attack last September killed seven people.

More than 120,000 people have been killed in a decade-long campaign of violence by Islamic militants in Algeria. The insurgency broke out in 1992 following the army's decision to cancel legislative elections that a Muslim fundamentalist party was strongly favored to win.

[Prodigal Son]

I didn't find this little item on a search.

[Dialup Llama]

Brave jihadis. Trying to move a step up from sleeping 5 year old children.

[swarthyguy]

Ah, yes, soccer as unislamic. Remember the story about the pakistani soccer team going to kabul or kandahar to play soccer. The talipolice showed up and made the pakistanis play in the traditional pants or sweats instead of the customary shorts. Really.

[majic12]

Algeria is in many ways as bad as Afganistan was... I went to morrocco a couple of years ago and people told stories about the fanatics in Algeria coming into a village and cutting a protestors head off and putting it on a stake. And nobody can stop it. Westerners will not travel in Algeria any more. it's a mess.

[TheMole]

There's nowhere near as much coverage of Algeria as there should be. Remember, the Algerians have got everything the Palestinians want - the "settlers" are gone and all traces of their presence have been obliterated. The result has been a descent into an endless nightmare of savagery.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

We ought to start a thread listing the top hellholes on Earth that get little to no significant media play here in the U.S. Sudan, for one. And I'd bet you couldn't find one person in twenty that knew what the Taliban was until 9/11. Maybe one in a hundred before the whole Bamiyan Buddha thing.

The world becomes more evil, the more you learn about it. And by contrast, the U.S. looks better and better (but more and more vulnerable, too). Perhaps I answered my own question. The press doesn't report it because people don't want to know about it. Ignorance is bliss. As of 9/11, though, people are waking up to the fact that 'ignorance is bliss' is a luxury, not an entitlement.

[swarthyguy]

Sudan, Algeria, Chechnya, Nepal.

Would've said Kashmir but not any more. It was around this time last year the taliban announced that all hindus and sikhs in Afghanistan should wear orange colored circles or armbands on their clothes. Ostensibly to stop the religious police harassing them. It was a little while before they blew up the statues.