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ALGIERS (AFP) - Algerian security forces killed 10 Islamists in raids earlier this week, and Islamic fighters killed one policeman, press reports said Sunday. Four fighters were killed on Friday in a raid in the Tissemsilt region, 240 kilometers (145 miles) southwest of Algiers. The Islamists were part of a group which had just been accused of stealing four vehicles at a fake roadblock. Also on Friday, security forces in the El Tarf region killed four Islamists, 600 kilometers east of Algiers, the reports said. Two members of the hardliner Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) were also killed Friday at Dellys, 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Algiers. An armed Islamic group attacked a police camp near Jijel, 300 kilometers east of Algiers, killing one policeman and injuring two others, the reports said. The latest violence comes one year after Algerians voted massively in favor of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's reconciliation plan aimed at ending one of the world's most brutal civil wars. A referendum on September 16, 1999 ushered in a law granting full or partial amnesty to Islamists who had fought against the regime since 1992. The amnesty expired January, but the violence in the northern African country has continued unabated. August's toll from the violence was put at around 100, while July was particularly bloody with at least 300 killed and hundreds more injured. |
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