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Bodies of two Islamist rebel leaders among corpses found in Algeria cave |
2006-05-16 |
![]() The two GSPC leaders were identified as 40-year-old Houari Youssef, also known as Mustafa Abu Omeir, and ex-policeman Makhlouf Ammar Abu al-Bara, also 40. Youssef was said to be the GSPC "emir" in charge of the region between the Babors mountains in Kabylie up to the seaside city of Skikda, 500 kilometers east of Algiers. Abu al-Barra, according to newspaper accounts, was responsible for issuing fatwas in the same region. In the absence of any official government statement on the discovery of the bodies in the cave, only two dailies reported on how the killings occurred, or might have occurred. The Courrier d'Algier said "it was difficult to determine whether the victims - who appeared to have been dead for several days, if not weeks - were killed by the terrorists themselves, or whether they had died for lack of water and food." Liberte reported that the women and children had been used as "human shields," trussed up with bombs that were exploded from a distance to slow the progress of advancing army troops. Press reports Sunday, quoting police sources, suggested that the women and children - belonging to the families of the Islamic radicals - were executed to prevent them from divulging any information that might compromise the GSPC. |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 Perhaps it was the bird flu, who knows? |
Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-05-16 07:32 |
#1 So we don't know if this was a Jim Jones Kool-Aid kind of thing, or seriously ruthless Algerian Government forces or natural causes? That leaves it pretty wide open. |
Posted by: Glenmore 2006-05-16 07:29 |