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Original Post Date: 2009-05-19 Time: 06:00:06 Posted By: Jan
By Alfred de Montesquiou
Algiers, Algeria – The Algerian military killed five militants with suspected al-Qaida links in a fierce gunbattle east of the capital Algiers, authorities said Monday.
The shootout came after a recent spate of bomb attacks that killed a civilian and injured a half-dozen people.
A tip-off led Algerian forces to encircle a militant group hiding in an orange grove outside the town of Tizi Ouzou, 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Algiers late Sunday, a local government official said.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because Algerian emergency laws forbid discussing security matters, said the army opened fire after the militants refused to surrender, killing four.
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State-run APS news agency later raised the death toll to five in a rare official comment on the violence.
The raid was part of a wider sweep of a restive region known as Kabylie where remnants of Algeria’s most active al-Qaida linked militants have regrouped.
At least three bomb attacks have occurred in the last few days.
The most recent one took place Saturday when a remotely controlled roadside bomb killed one civilian and seriously injured two others near Boumerdes, a town some 40 miles (60 kilometers) east of Algiers, the El Watan and Liberte newspapers reported.
The militants are what is left of Islamist radical groups that battled the government through the 1990s. As many as 200 000 people were killed in the violence.
Most groups laid down their arms as part of a pardon program in 2005. But one extremist faction suspected of links to al-Qaida remained active, calling itself al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa.
The group has not commented on the latest fighting. But it did release an online statement on Sunday refuting media reports that it was being cornered and had suffered heavy losses in recent weeks. – Sapa-AP
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20090518193642100C500918