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> >.c The Associated Press

> >ALGIERS, Algeria (Jan. 3) - Muslim militants swinging axes, knives, hoes and

> >shovels hacked and slashed 412 villagers to death in a ruthless night of

> >bloodletting, the deadliest massacre yet in Algeria's 6-year-old insurgency.

> 

> That's sad, but remember that those who were killed were also Muslims. Most

> of these killings are politically motivated. Algerian civil war started in

> 1992 when military (still the ruling dictator) canceled the election in

> which FIS (an Islamic fundamentalist Party) was about to win. 

> 

> I don't support Algeria's military dictatorship. Even though I oppose

> fundamentalists, but I don't agree with sacrificing democracy to stop them.

> If Algerian people were voting for FIS then that was their choice. Military

> had no right to cancel the election and impose their own dictatorship. The

> result of this blatant injustice is the Civil War. As a result, about 70000

> people killed sine 1992. Fundamentalists are not the only one responsible;

> many thousands were (and are) slaughtered by the government to suppress

> FIS. Since both France and Israel are strong supporter of Algerian military

> dictatorship, so you can also expect a lot of propaganda. "Fundamentalists

> are doing the killing," they say; but what about the government? How many

> thousands were slaughtered by the government?


And with Israel a strong backer of the military, you know that the 
government is getting help from the US as well.  In 20 years, we will 
probably all find out how much our CIA helped them with cancelling the 
elections, and spreading anti-muslim propagando on cnn.  History repeats 
itself...


Scott

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