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| Africa: North |
| GSPC kills 2 in Algeria |
| 2005-10-12 |
| Islamic militants with suspected links to al Qaeda stormed a coffee house and cut the throats of two people in eastern Algeria days after voters approved an amnesty for rebels, newspapers reported on Tuesday. Newspapers El Watan and Le Quotidien d'Oran quoted survivors as saying about 30 rebels, disguised as security forces, were preparing to slit the throats of another 18 civilians when lights from a vehicle prompted them to flee to a nearby forest. The attackers, suspected members of the Qaeda-aligned Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), believed the vehicle was a police car, the newspapers said. The attack happened on Sunday. Authorities were not immediately available for comment. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |