Arabic News Weekly Edition for Algeria, 7/29/2002
Weekly Edition, Algeria - Week of July 29, 2002
- Syrian mediation between Morocco, Spain
The Monte Carlo radio on Tuesday quoted well informed sources as saying that the visit of Syrian president's envoy, Farouk al-Shara, to Morocco after his visits to Spain and Algeria bear Syrian efforts to bring together view points the two countries have reached after they had finalized an agreement concerning the peaceful settlement for the Leila isle case. Syria-Algeria, Politics, 7/31/2002 - Algerian army not confirming or denying killing of Abu Turab
Algerian news reports on Tuesday talked about the killing of the new leader of the armed Islamic group Rasheed Abu Turab. An event that if true, is considered a tough blow for the group whose former leader Antar al-Zawabri was also killed in February. Algeria, Local, 7/31/2002 - Sit-in of solidarity with Moroccans detained on Algerian territory
another participant said that the detainees were deprived from most basic medicare and that he himself suffered from a toothache for too long before he extracted the tooth by his own means, with the help of some inmates. Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 7/30/2002 - Algerian FM calls for ending Iraq sanctions Algeria-Iraq, Politics, 7/29/2002