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| Africa: North |
| Algeria Islamists hail diplomats abduction |
| 2005-07-25 |
| ALGIERS, Algeria, July 25 (UPI) -- Algeria's Muslim extremist Salafi Group for Daawa and Fighting Monday applauded the kidnapping of two Algerian diplomats in Iraq. The group said in a statement carried on its Web site that it welcomed the kidnapping of the diplomats of the "atheist Algerian regime which is trying to veil its support for the crusaders in Iraq while stabbing the Iraqi people in the back." "In that happy occasion the Salafi Group for Daawa and Fighting in Algeria congratulates the brothers in the al-Qaida organization in Mesopotamia for avenging the bloodletting of Muslims and the occupation of Muslim land by crusaders," the statement said. It vowed to "keep up the jihad until the liberation of the whole land of Islam." The Algerian foreign ministry said its charge d'affaires in Baghdad Ali Belaroussi and the diplomatic attache, Ezzedine Belkadi, were kidnapped in the Iraqi capital last Thursday. |
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