13 dead as Algerian forces clash with Islamists.Summary: Ten suspected Islamists and three soldiers Three Soldiers is a 1920[1] novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. H.L. were killed in a fierce gunbattle in the Sahara Desert when a convoy of heavily armed militants was attacked by the Algerian army, officials said Saturday.AaThe gunmen, in a caravan of several 4-by-4 vehicles crossing the desert, took refuge in remote terrain near the Great Erg erg (ûrg), unit of work or energy in the cgs system of units, which is based on the metric system; it is the work done or energy expended by a force of 1 dyne acting through a distance of 1 centimeter. - the world's largest sand dune sand dune Hill, mound, or ridge of windblown sand or other loose material such as clay particles. Dunes are commonly associated with desert regions and seacoasts, and there are large areas of dunes in nonglacial parts of Antarctica. . Alfred de MontesquiouAa Associated PressAa Aa ALGIERS, Algeria: Ten suspected Islamists and three soldiers were killed in a fierce gunbattle in the Sahara Desert when a convoy of heavily armed militants was attacked by the Algerian army, officials said Saturday.Aa The gunmen, in a caravan of several 4-by-4 vehicles crossing the desert, took refuge in remote terrain near the Great Erg -- the world's largest sand dune -- when they saw they were being trailed by the army and special gendarmerie gen·dar·me·rie n. 1. A body of French gendarmes. 2. Slang A group of police officers. [French, from Old French, calvary, from gent d'armes, gendarme, police forces in the early hours Friday, officials said.Aa They fought off the security forces, killing three and wounding two others, said an elected official in the town of Bechar 985 kilometers southwest of Algiers, the capital.Aa A security chief in Bechar confirmed the information. He said the security forces, supported by army helicopters, killed 10 militants, including three who appeared not to be Algerian nationals.Aa The officials gave no reports of arrests. Authorities seized several heavy machine guns A heavy machine gun refers to either a larger-caliber, high-power machine gun or one of the smaller, medium-caliber (rifle caliber) machine guns meant for prolonged firing from heavy mounts, less mobile, or static positions (or some combination of the two). and large quantities of ammunition and medicine after the clash, they said. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity.Aa Several independent Algerian newspapers also reported the clash on Saturday. Aa While Islamist militants have claimed multiple bomb attacks in northern Algeria, the south of the country has largely been spared the violence. But many security experts believe that Algeria's Al-Qaeda-linked militants use the sprawling southern deserts as rear bases and for trafficking weapons, drugs and illegal migrants over the region's porous porous /por·ous/ (por´us) penetrated by pores and open spaces. po·rous adj. 1. Full of or having pores. 2. Admitting the passage of gas or liquid through pores. borders with sub-Saharan African countries such as Mali and Niger.Aa The militant group
The Militant Group was an early British Trotskyist group, formed in 1935 by Denzil Dean Harber, former leader of the Marxist Group, as an entrist group , known as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb also has been blamed for several kidnappings of Western tourists in the desert over the last few years.Aa Its fighters are a leftover from a civil war between radical Islamists and government forces that killed up to 200,000 people in Algeria during the 1990s. The group officially merged with Al-Qaeda in 2006 and has continued to regularly target government forces and foreigners Foreigners alienage the condition of being an alien. androlepsy Law. the seizure of foreign subjects to enforce a claim for justice or other right against their nation. gypsyologist, gipsyologist Rare. in recent years. Copyright 2009, The Daily Star. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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