Aissat Rabah, an Algerian provincial council head in the eastern Berber Kabylie region, died Oct. 13 after being shot in a cafe by gunmen suspected of belonging to the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat Islamist rebel group. Rabah was a member of the secular opposition Socialist Forces Front, popular in the Kabylie region that is also known as a base for Islamist militants.