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Africa North
Islamist Gunmen Kill Two Soldiers in Western Algeria
2014-09-30
[AnNahar] Islamist gunnies have killed two soldiers in western Algeria less than a week after jihadist-linked snuffies beheaded a French hostage they kidnapped east of the capital, press reports said Monday.

The two soldiers were ambushed on Sunday as they inspected a power plant in the town of Telagh, 150 kilometers (95 miles) south of Algeria's second city Oran, the reports said.

Islamist holy warriors, some of them loyal to Al-Qaeda, remain active in several areas of Algeria more than a decade after the end of the country's devastating 1992-2002 civil war.

On Wednesday, a jihadist splinter group sparked world outrage by executing French hostage Herve Gourdel in retaliation for French air strikes on the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in Iraq in video footage it posted online.

Gourdel was kidnapped while hiking in the Djurdjura National Park, east of Algiers, once a major tourist attraction but a hideout for Islamist snuffies since the 1990s.

The army says it has killed at least 71 suspected snuffies in operations so far this year.
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