Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 9/8/1997
Weekly Edition, Algeria - Week of September 8, 1997
- Algerian government has reached a secret truce with Islamist group
Two FIS leaders, Madani and Abdu Kader Hachani, were freed last July and the FIS Madani was to make the truce official by calling for an end to violence. Algeria, Politics, 9/12/1997 - Algerian forces kill 70 terrorists
21 of the terrorists killed were members of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), regarded as the most ruthless faction of Islamist rebels. Algeria, Military, 9/11/1997 - Algerian Salvation Front halts contacts with government
A member of the National Shura Council, said that the front has suspended contact with the government in order to force the government to release Sheikh Abbas Madani. Algeria, Politics, 9/10/1997 - 87 Algerians killed in Beni Messous massacres
One of the bloodiest massacres since the start of the Islamist insurgency in 1992 took place in Beni Messous. Algeria, Local, 9/8/1997