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| Algerian Sweep Kills 25 Suspected Islamists |
| 2015-05-21 |
| [AnNahar] Algerian soldiers rubbed out three Islamist The ministry said "three terrorists" armed with automatic weapons were killed. Twenty-two armed Islamists were killed on Tuesday, the first day of a vast operation in the mountainous Ferkioua area of Bouira province, according to the ministry. It said automatic weapons, ammunition and other weaponry were seized. A security source told AFP the army was keeping up the operation "to neutralize other members of the gang". The sweep was launched on the back of information of a large group of ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadist group that beheaded a French tourist in September. A judicial source said experts were trying to determine if the dead Jund al-Khilafa Its leader Abdelmalik Gouri was killed in an army operation last December in Issers, 60 kilometers (35 miles) east of the capital. The army says it has now killed 59 armed Islamists since the start of this year. Islamist-linked violence rocked Algeria in the 1990s but has since waned, although gangs remain active in central and eastern Algeria where they mount attacks on security forces. |
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