Algeria hit by surge in guerrilla violence

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The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC)-affiliated terrorist group on Thursday evening killed eight soldiers, among them an officer, in an isolated municipality in Aïn Ed-Defla wilaya. The terrorist organization also claimed the Reghaïa and Dergana explosions and said they are a message that enshrines its attachment to keep on sowing terror.

The attackers stole the soldier’s arms and uniforms, security sources in the region pointed out. They further warned that armed terrorists could use the military uniforms to set trapped check points in the region. A security source well acquainted with the terrorist group's armed activity stated that the ambush is by the GSPC, some of whom are still hiding in some localities in the region. The ambush coincided with the airing of a communiqué by GSPC’s information committee, claiming the explosions that targeted last Monday two police stations in Reghaïa and Dergana.

The communiqué, issue 31st of last October and aired on Al Qaeda “Jihadist Forums” web-sites, claimed that the two aggressions “caused a huge damage to the police stations in addition, 30 policemen were listed dead or wounded”. Whereas a security services communiqué reported that three civilians have been killed and 14 policemen injured, furthermore journalists who visited hospitals on Tuesday haven’t mentioned that a heavy toll was caused by the two explosions. The communiqué also underlies the terrorist group’s need to financial and human support.

8 soldiers killed in an ambush

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Reading these kinda of news, make me think that most people in Algeria will says that we need BOUTEF more and more, look like, they are paving the way for constitution ammendment without debate...(evocated reason will be always ...Terrorismos )


Faith Terror and Martyrdom in Algeria - The Monks of Tibhirine

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ALGIERS, Algeria: Eight troops were killed in an ambush by Islamist militants in the Algeria's western region of Ain Defla, security officials said Saturday.

The troops — seven soldiers and one officer — were ambushed as they were going Thursday to the village of Tachebenk to investigate a report that militants had made an incursion there. A group of about 15 militants attacked the troops in a thicket near the town of Bellaas, killing all of them and taking their weapons before escaping into the surrounding forest, security officials said.

The attack in Ain Defla, a region about 250 kilometers (155 miles) west of the capital, Algiers, was the third in less than a week. On Monday, militants staged overnight attacks on two police stations outside Algiers, killing three people and injuring 24 others.

Sporadic violence continues to upset the calm of this North African nation, which is trying to pull itself out of an Islamic insurgency that started 14 years ago and has killed an estimated 150,000 people — Islamists, civilians and military.

8 troops killed in attack by militants in western Algeria

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Terror threats: Preventive security to be strengthened near public institutions

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Two terrorists killed one arrested

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ALGIERS, Algeria — Seven members of Algeria's security forces were killed in an ambush during a cleanup operation in a forest used as a hideout by Islamic extremists, and 13 others were injured, four of them seriously, security officials said Friday.

Reinforcements were immediately sent into the Begasse forest, in the Bouira region, some 70 miles east of the capital, where an armed band attacked security forces Thursday as they cleared a blockade made of dead branches, the officials said. The insurgents, identified as the El Farouk arm of the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, were encircled, the officials said.

The security officials were not authorized to speak publicly of the attack and asked not to be identified. Authorities rarely make public information about attacks and deaths of soldiers in the long-standing battle against Islamic insurgents.

The Salafist Group for Call and Combat, or GSPC, which has aligned itself with al-Qaida, is the only remaining insurgency group in Algeria capable of dealing death blows.

Eight troops were killed a week ago in an ambush in Algeria's western region of Ain Defla, attacked by 15 militants as they investigated a report of an incursion.

Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni tried at the start of the month to minimize the ranks of insurgents, saying that an 750 to 800 Islamic insurgents have been put out of action - captured, killed or turned themselves in - since September 2005, when the nation voted in a referendum for a national reconciliation pact which called for an amnesty. The GSCP refused.

An estimated 150,000 people - Islamists, civilians and military - have been killed since the start of the insurgency, triggered when the army canceled 1992 legislative elections that a Muslim fundamentalist party was poised to win.

Ambush kills 7 soldiers in Algeria

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Ten soldiers have been killed and 19 injured by terrorists. The army convoy was ambushed Wednesday afternoon on its way to the Beggas forest West of Kadiria Commune (Wilaya of Bouira).

The operation occurred at seven am as terrorists blew up a number of bombs on the route of military trucks carrying soldiers. They shot them with firearms. 8 soldiers died and 21 were injured and were taken to hospital, reliable sources said. The death toll was raised to 10 yesterday after two of the injured died. The soldiers were back from a combing operation held Tuesday morning in the area and confronted the terrorists to recover some their arms. The too difficult to reach area was a refuge to a terrorist group headed by Aziz, the deputy of “Kezouit”, on whom there were speculations about the news of his fate.

The group is operating under the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). Given the scale of the operation, our sources excluded the fact of the operation being perpetrated by the local elements only but it is probable that they were backed by other groups such as the one operating in the mountains of Lakhdaria and Sidi Ali Bounab (Wilaya of Tizi Ouzou).

10 soldiers killed and 19 wounded