#3 IIUC, many of their "families" are in fact abucted women, a staple of the algerian islamic groups (one pamphlet included the phrase "we're gonna steal your cattle and your wives, yaaarrr", I'm not joking, this has stuck in my memory due to the likeness to a line from a Mel Brooks movie), and the infortunate offsprings of such "relationship", at least that was the case in the 90's.
Emotional involvment must be pretty limited, especially coming from men who had the habit of cutting the throats of entire villages, or smashing babies' head, or cutting them into pieces and putting them back into the ripped belly of their mother (this was done to french pieds noirs during the independence war too, btw). |
The bodies of 18 children and three women, apparently massacred by Islamic insurgents, have been found in a cave in Algeria, police said. The bodies were found at Jijel, 360 kilometres east of the capital Algiers, when troops raided a cave network in search of insurgents, killing five of them, police said in a statement.