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| 15 troops killed in Salafist attack in Algeria |
| 2002-05-06 |
| Islamic extremists have killed 15 soldiers in an ambush in the Kabylie region of northern Algeria. A military convoy was ambushed on Sunday in the Mizrana forest near Tizi Ouzou, around 110 kilometres east of Algiers. Around 50 extremists from the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) were blamed for the attack, in which they reportedly used bombs to halt the convoy before opening fire with automatic weapons. There was no official comment on the reported attack, which came just days after 26 Islamic extremists and eight soldiers were killed in an army operation to root out members of the GSPC in the northeast. The daily El Khabar reported Saturday that the army had used heavy artillery on Friday to pound a base of the GSPC in the mountainous, wooded region of Sidi Ali Bounab, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of the capital, Algiers. The attack was part of a three-month-long army offensive to root out terrorist groups. Two GSPC training camps were destroyed in the attacks, and several weapons were recovered, the paper said. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |