Example sentences for: algerian

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  • The word "Enough," splashed across the front page of the Algerian government newspaper El Moudjahid , referred not, as one might have expected, to the continuing massacres by Islamic extremists, which are reported to have claimed at least 600 dead since the holy month of Ramadan began Dec. 30, but to the agitation the killings have provoked in western Europe and the United States.

  • Libération, the left-leaning Paris daily, said that the Islamic terrorists 1) were much more numerous and resilient than the Algerian government would admit and 2) had "inexhaustible reserves bred by hatred, poverty, and the desire for vengeance."

  • In addition, an Algerian group hijacked an airliner in 1994, most likely intending to blow it up over Paris, but possibly to crash it into the Eiffel Tower.

  • In France, where the trouble in its former colony continued to occupy many newspaper-column inches, the principal Paris morning paper, the conservative Le Figaro, carried an interview with the leader of the Algerian Islamic party (FIS) that won the 1991 Algerian election, only to see the result quashed and its members jailed for five years.

  • Algerian atrocity watch : Militants 1) decapitated or cut the throats of 12 children and 26 adults in one village; 2) similarly massacred 22 children and 15 adults in another village; 3) slaughtered 20 teen-agers and young adults at a wedding; and 4) attacked a school bus and killed the driver and 16 children, some of whom were shot through the head.


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