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| Africa: North |
| Saudi poet killed in Algeria |
| 2003-12-01 |
| A little more detail on Saturday's article... A prominent Saudi poet was shot to death by attackers while on a hunting trip in Algeria, where an Islamic insurgency has raged for more than a decade. It’s those moonshiners, they’re everywhere! Talal al-Rasheed and his party were ambushed late Thursday near Djelfa, newspapers reported Saturday. At least six others in the hunting party were wounded, the daily Liberte reported. The newspaper L’Expression said the gunmen wounded several police. Newspapers blamed the attack on the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, known as the GSPC. The GIA is reportedly not doing so well, so I would say GSPC this time around. The fact that they whacked a few coppers too increases my suspicion on this one. Rasheed’s party reportedly came to the Djelfa area a week ago to hunt. His body was brought home Friday, according to the Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 Signed copies of his latest compilation just became more valuable. There ought to be an art futures market. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-12-1 4:33:51 AM |