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Algerian troops dressed as Mujahideen did massacre
bhaloo
02/09/01 at 21:58:40
slm as-salaamu `alaykum, May this be a lesson to those modernist Muslims who criticize mujaahideen while reclining on their sofas, and call jihad in Allah's path "terrorism" and "extremism". While the Muslims of the west were criticizing the Algerian struggle for an Islamic state, along with the western media, the murderers were actually the French installed Algerian troops dressed as Islamic mujaahideen all along. Our naivete is one of our worst enemies. The struggle to live under our own religion with the freedom to practice our religion, as Allah revealed it, free from european puppet governments, is our inalienable right. No one called George Washington a terrorist, but today you have some Muslims calling their own kind "terrorists" and "extremists". was-salaamu `alaykum, Shibli Zaman Algerian troops dressed as rebels staged massacres: ex-officer PARIS, Feb 7 (AFP) - Algerian troops carried out civilian massacres while disguised as rebels, shot suspects dead in cold blood and tortured Rebels to death during the dirty war against Islamists in the 1990s, a former officer claims in a new book. The shocking allegations made the Front page of Thursday's edition of the respected French daily Le Monde, and has sparked calls for an international inquiry into the conduct of The former military regime in Algeria. "I saw colleagues burn alive a child of 15, soldiers disguised as terrorists massacre civilians, colonels Kill mere suspects in cold blood, officers torture Islamists to death," writes Habib Souaidia in his French-language book. In "The Dirty War: 1992-2000," Souaidia for the first time reveals the dark underside of the Algerian army's conduct during the fight against Islamists during and After the era of the military regime there. It will reinforce the suspicions of human rights activists about the army's conduct of its war against Islamic rebels. It was in 1992 that armed Islamic groups went to war after the army intervened to call off the second round of a general election that an Islamist party was poised to win. Souaidia, 31, writes that when he volunteered for the army in 1989, "I was far from thinking that I was going to be one of the witnesses of the tragedy that has hit my country." As time went on, he writes, he saw colleagues coming back from missions in villages where massacres by "Islamic rebels" were reported the following day. Gradually, he himself was drawn into the dirty war. In 1994, he joined an anti-terrorist unit disguised as bearded Islamist fighters. They abducted and killed half a dozen people suspected of Islamic sympathies. "We arrested people, tortured them, killed them and burnt their bodies," he writes, adding that he saw about 100 people die this way. Souaidia, who served at the rank of sub-lieutenant, left Algeria last year and now lives in France as a political refugee. In the book's preface, prominent Italian anti-mafia magistrate Ferdinando Imposimato says Souaidia's "precious" testimony could serve as a basis for legal action by families of the victims, in both Algerian and European courts. He called for the European Union to make any further aid to Algeria conditional on its cooperation with an international inquiry into the affair. Thursday's Le Monde carries an opinion piece by a group of intellectuals attacking the French government for its uncritical support of the Algerian regime during the 1990s, including arms sales and military training. A book published last year, "Who did the killing at Bentalha?", written by the survivor of a 1997 massacre in Algeria, raised questions about the failure of security forces in the area at the time to prevent the killings.
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Re: Algerian troops dressed as Mujahideen did massacre
humble_muslim
02/12/01 at 13:25:21
Robert Fisk has been making these claims for years.
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