Islamic extremists killed 24 people in three attacks in northern Algeria. Nine people were shot dead on the road linking the capital Algiers to Oran in the far northwest. The assailants were wearing military uniforms and had set up a false checkpoint along the road. Another 13 people were shot or hacked to death with knives in the same area when an armed group targeted the family of an armed civilian guard, using an explosive device to break into their home. Two others were killed in the northeastern Kabylie region, where an armed group killed two guards and injured three others in an ambush on their patrol near Tizi Ouzou.
Sounds like the boys are making it home from Afghanistan safely. |