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Algeria: Top al-Qaeda leader killed
Looks like it was a tough weekend for al-Qaeda...Algiers, 14 July (AKI) - The Algerian military has killed a top leader with the Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, according to a report on Monday in the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. The report said that some soliders ambushed a top al-Qaeda leader who was known by his battle name "al-Tuhami". The terrorist was together with other al-Qaeda members in the village of Ain al-Hamra, 70 kilometres east of Algiers. The ambush was carried out by a special platoon in-charge of fighting terrorism. The al-Qaeda leader was at the Ain al-Hamra village to meet a young man who had offered to provide logistical support for the group. Set up? The newspaper report said that once the al-Qaeda leader was surrounded, the soldiers asked him to surrender his weapons. He refused to do so and soldiers shot him dead in an ensuing gun battle. Will you surrender? Well I... BANG "Mahmoud! Pry his gun outta his cold, dead fingers, wouldja?" "With pleasure, sir!" Two people who were with al-Tuhami tried to escape but were also killed by the military.
Posted by: tu3031 2008-07-14 |
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