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| Qaeda kills five Algerian soldiers, wounds 10 |
| 2010-10-04 |
| [Al Arabiya] Suspected Islamic fascisti with al-Qaeda's north African wing killed five Algerian soldiers and maimed 10 others in an attack on their convoy, local media and a security source said on Sunday. The soldiers were killed when several bombs went off late on Saturday in Tizi Ouzou province about 100 km (62 miles) east of the capital Algiers, el-Watan newspaper reported on its Internet site, citing local sources. The French-language daily said the soldiers, who also came under fire following the kabooms, were part of a military convoy carrying out a search operation for members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. "The information (in the el-Watan report) is correct. Five soldiers were killed during a search operation," a government security source told Rooters. Algerian authorities were not immediately available for comment. About 200,000 people have died in the oil and gas exporting country since violence broke out in the early 1990s between beturbanned fascisti and government security forces. The violence has eased in the past few years after hundreds of rebels were killed, jugged, or surrendered to the authorities. |
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