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	GIA Leader Killed in Algeria
		Antar Zouabri had been blamed for the deaths of thousands of civilians since he took command of the radical Islamist group in 1996.
		Zouabri's death has been reported by local newspapers before, but this is the first time it has been confirmed by the government.
		Zouabri has led the Armed Islamic Group since the group's former leader, Djamel Zitouni was killed in 1996 as part of a settling of scores within the group.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=737 (490 words)

	Armed Islamic Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The GIA killed the AIS leader for central Algeria, Azzedine Baa, in December, and in January pledged to fight the AIS as an enemy; particularly in the west, full-scale battles between them became common.
		In July 1996, GIA leader Djamel Zitouni was killed by one of the breakaway factions - Ali Benhadjar's Medea brigade, later to become the AIS-aligned Islamic League for Preaching and Combat - and was succeeded by Antar Zouabri.
		Under the leadership of Antar Zouabri, its longest serving "emir" (1996-2002), the GIA became a "takfirist" group, considering Algerian society to be in violation of Islamic precepts, therefore justifying the killing of members of that society as a form of purification of heretical elements.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armed_Islamic_Group (1281 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		From 1996-2002, Antar Zouabri was the leader of the Armed Islamic Group (or GIA), a terrorist organization with aims to overthrow the secular Algerian regime and replace it with an Islamic state.
		Zouabri was correctly described as “the worst criminal in Algerian history;” under his leadership, the GIA was probably responsible for tens of thousand of murders.
		The reason for these many killings was that Zouabri declared the entire Algerian people — or at least the 99.9% who did not support the GIA — to be “infidels” and thus legitimate targets for murder.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /printindividualProfile.asp?indid=1457 (115 words)

	Algeria's hardline GIA exacts swift revenge for killing of leader
		Zouabri's death was hailed as a success for the security forces, faced with an upsurge in violence as Algeria prepares for legislative elections, due to be held by June.
		Zouabri, considered the most extremist leader of an armed Islamic group in Algeria, succeeded Djamel Zitouni at the head of the GIA after the latter was killed in factional fighting within the group in July 1996.
		Zouabri's leadership of the GIA was marked by large-scale massacres, particularly in Rais and Bentalha, in the Mititdja region, where hundreds of people died in bloody GIA attacks in 1997.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/625327/posts?page=2 (1363 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Top Islamist militant 'killed' in Algeria
		Antar Zouabri, who had led the GIA since 1996, was killed late on Friday along with two colleagues in a gunfight at a house in his hometown of Boufarik, south of Algiers, the Algerian Government said in a statement.
		"Antar Zouabri and two other terrorists were shot dead by security forces on Friday at Boufarik," the statement said.
		The authorities blamed Mr Zouabri for his part in a series of massacres and for encouraging GIA soldiers to kidnap thousands of girls to use as sex slaves in mountainous tunnels and caves.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/middle_east/1810839.stm (364 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Antar Zouabri: A violent legacy
		Mr Zouabri came to the helm of the GIA in the summer of 1996, shortly before it started a campaign of slaughter in the countryside.
		Mr Zouabri himself has been quoted as saying that whoever was not with the group was renegade.
		It is difficult to gauge the extent of the blow which the killing of Mr Zouabri represents to the GIA.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/1811194.stm (521 words)

	CTV.ca - Islamic group leader Zouabri killed near Algiers - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		Antar Zouabri, leader of the Armed Islamic Group, and two other insurgents were killed Friday after security forces threw grenades into the home of one of the men in Boufarik, some 15 miles south of Algiers, a military official said.
		One of the two insurgents who died with Zouabri was described as a top bomb specialist with the GIA, and the other was a former convict who had been given a government pardon, officials said.
		Zouabri, a native of Boufarik, took the helm of the GIA following the killing of the group's former leader, Djamel Zitouni, in 1996.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1024895031484_20304231?hub=CTVNewsAt11&subhub=PrintStory (529 words)

	Article
		Zouabri decreed the whole Algerian people to be infidels; he even ordered killed Islamist fighters who did not recognize him as leader.
		Zouabri’s fatwa led to a particularly gruesome series of massacres and mass rapes.
		Zouabri’s death will spark a new struggle for leadership, which will be characterized by liquidations and internal squabbles.
	www.rantburg.com /poparticle.php?ID=1681&D=2002-02-14&HC=1 (937 words)

	Security forces kill Algerian terrorist - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Antar Zouabri, the alleged chieftain of the Armed Islamic Group, or GIA, died Friday in a 2 1/2-hour gun battle with pursuing troops in his hometown, Boufarik, about 15 miles south of Algiers, according to a statement by the Algerian government.
		Zouabri, whose age apparently is unknown, became the emir, or leader, of the GIA in 1996 after its former leader, Djamel Zitouni, was murdered in an internal feud.
		Under Zouabri's ruthless reign, the GIA engaged in indiscriminate massacres of civilians, descending on villages and cutting victims' throats by the hundreds, according to Algerian authorities.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/terrorism/s_16723.html (586 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Zouabri, blamed for some of Algeria's most ruthless and lethal attacks as head of the radical Armed Islamic Group, was killed by government forces after a two-and-a-half hour gunbattle, officials said.
		Zouabri took command of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in 1996, pushing Algeria's civil strife to its bloodiest and most gruesome limits.
		The authorities also blamed Zouabri for encouraging GIA soldiers to kidnap thousands of girls for use as sex slaves in mountainous tunnels and caves.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,80709-1-9,00.html (625 words)

	Algeria claims ruthless rebel leader is dead after shoot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Along with two comrades, he was reported yesterday to have been killed in a gun battle two days ago with the armed forces in the town of Boufarik, south of Algiers.
		Mr Zouabri was the head of the Armed Islamic Group, or GIA, which had enlisted thousands of Algerians to fight in the Afghan guerrilla struggle against the Soviets.
		His predecessor Djamel Zitouni, killed six years ago, was blamed by the French in 1994 for organising the hijacking of an Air France jet by a group that announced its intention of crashing the plane on Paris – a macabre foreshadowing of the 11 September crimes against humanity in America.
	www.robert-fisk.com /articles32.htm (578 words)

	The Algerian Precedent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Zouabri wasn’t just some terrorist small fry, like the ones the security forces have been catching from time to time in the 10-year-old war against political violence in Algeria a war that has claimed up to 150,000 civilian lives so far.
		Zouabri’s westward trek resulted in an infamous series of bloody massacres that hit the western Algerian regions of Shlif, Relizane, Tiyaret, and Sidi Belabes beginning in the holy month of Ramadan 1998.
		Special forces units broke into the house in question, killing Zouabri, Abu Haider, and a third man thought to be the house owner who later turned out to be one of the GIA leaders who had laid down their weapons and renounced violence.
	www.eurolegal.org /terrorism/terror106.htm (6338 words)

	Algerian Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In July 1996, GIA leader Djamel Zitouni was killed by one of the breakaway ex-GIA factions and was succeeded by Antar Zouabri, who would prove an even bloodier leader.
		The GIA, torn by splits and desertions and denounced by all sides even in the Islamist movement, was slowly destroyed by army operations over the next few years; by the time of Antar Zouabri's death in early 2002, it was effectively incapacitated.
		The government's efforts were given a boost in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks; United States sympathy for Algeria's government increased, and was expressed concretely through such actions as the freezing of GIA and GSPC assets and the supply of infrared goggles to the army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Algerian_Civil_War (4591 words)

	ALGERIAN.htm in Business Recorder on September 09, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Algerian officials use the term "terrorist" to mean armed Muslim fundamentalists who have been battling the authorities since the latter in January 1992 cancelled a general election in which radical Islamists had taken a huge lead.
		It was thought that GIA chief Zouabri was caught within the military deployment, the newspaper said, without giving details.
		Zouabri has been reported killed several times, the most recent in a two-week operation in July when Algerian newspapers said upto 300 rebels had died.
	www.paksearch.com /br97/Sep/9/ALGERIAN.htm (530 words)

	BOMBKILL.htm in Business Recorder on October 09, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		At least 21 train passengers were killed late in April, in one of the worst rebel attack on the country's rail transport.
		The officer, quoted by El Watan, said GIA chief Zouabri became among Algeria's richest men thanks to cash his men forcibly extracted from Algerians, including jewellery of hundreds of massacred women.
		"Antar Zouabri is still in the run," said Le Matin, indirectly quoting a senior army officer, conflicting with earlier Algerian reports that he was shot dead along with more than 200 of his men in a July army offensive in Blida region.
	www.paksearch.com /br97/Oct/9/BOMBKILL.htm (679 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Antar Zouabri, head of the Armed Islamic Group, or GIA was ________ ____ ____ _____ _______ with Algerian security forces Friday in Boufarik, some 15 miles south of the capital, Algiers.
		His death is considered a major step in the _______________ government's fight against a ____________ ______ _________ that _______ ______ an estimated 150,000 lives.
		Zouabri's body was _________ ___________ by security forces, who said they found weapons and what they described as ___________ ______________ in the house.
	ganaro.com /up01/0218head.htm (302 words)

	Khaleej Times - Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		The authorities said Zouabri, who took the command of the GIA guerrilla group in 1996, was hiding at a safe house in Boufarik, his home town.
		Antar Zouabri, who led the GIA since 1996, was killed late Friday along with two other members of the GIA in a house in the town of Boufarik, 35 kilometers (20 miles) south of Algiers, the sources said.
		Zouabri's body was formally identified by security forces, who said they found weapons and "subversive documents" in the house.
	www.khaleejtimes.co.ae /sunday/theworld.htm (8651 words)

	Middle East Newsline - Area News - Updated Daily
		The 31-year-old Zouabri was slain on Friday during a shootout with security forces in Boufarik, 30 kilometers south of Algiers.
		Arab diplomatic sources said the death of Zouabri was a harsh blow to the GIA but asserted that a successor would be soon appointed.
		The London-based Al Hayat daily reported on Sunday that the killing of Zouabri was the greatest success of Algeria's regime since 1994.
	www.menewsline.com /stories/2002/february/02_11_3.html (187 words)

	09736 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		, Antar Zouabri [AHN-tar zoo-WAH-bree] was shot dead in a gun-battle in Boufarik [BOO-fahr-rik], near Algiers, the capital.
		Since 1996, Zouabri had been the leader of the Armed Islamic Group.
		Antar Zouabri is no longer a threat, but the Armed Islamic Group, the Salafi Group for Call and Combat, and other terrorist groups are still dangerous.
	www.ibb.gov /editorials/09736.htm (351 words)

	Middle East Online
		The press reported in July that Abou Tourab was one of 15 armed Islamic extremists killed during a security forces operation in the Tamezguida forest, known to be a GIA stronghold in the Medea region, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Algiers.
		Algerian newspapers had also reported the death of Abou Tourab's predecessor, Antar Zouabri, several times before he was confirmed killed in a gun battle with security forces in the town of Boufarik, just south of Algiers, in February 2002.
		After succeeding Zouabri as the head of the GIA, Abou Tourab vowed to murder all Algerians who disagree with the radical group's views.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=7888 (553 words)

	Middle East Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Rachid Abou Tourab, who became GIA chief after the army killed Antar Zouabri in February 2002, headed the most organised and radical of hardline Muslim fundamentalist movements which began a guerrilla war in 1992.
		Under Zouabri, who was killed by security forces at Boufarik, 35 kilometres (20 miles) south of the Mediterranean capital, the GIA was held responsible for massacres of civilians, notably villagers in isolated hamlets.
		The fundamentalist insurgency began after the military in January 1992 intervened to call off the second round of a general election the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) was poised to win.
	www.buzztracker.org /2005/01/04/cache/427759.html (424 words)

	[No title]
		Zouabri, head of the militant Armed Islamic Group (GIA), ensures that Algeria remains the most dangerous place in the world for journalists.
		Under his leadership and that of his predecessor, Abu Abdul Rahman Amin, who was killed last year, the GIA has waged an unpredecented campaign of assassination that has claimed the lives of 59 journalists since the brutal civil conflict began in 1992.
		Ongoing attacks on journalists and seizure of critical publications belie his claim to have lifted censorship.
	www.cpj.org /enemies/enemies97.html (734 words)

	Majalah Tempo Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Pemerintah Aljazair menuduh Zouabri berada di balik pembantaian ribuan warga sipil yang menentang gerakan pemurnian Islam yang dipelopori GIA.
		Zouabri juga dianggap mendalangi penculikan ribuan perempuan muda Aljir.
		Tewasnya Zouabri merupakan pukulan kesekian bagi gerakan radikal Islam Aljazair.
	www.tempo.co.id /majalah/min/lua-5.html (607 words)

	Antar zouabri - TheBestLinks.com - Antar Zouabri, Algeria, Islamist, Armed Islamic Group, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
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	New Violence in Algeria Halts Move Toward Conciliation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		The release of Madani was quickly followed by a broad government sweep against insurgents south and west of Algiers.
		Several Algerian newspapers reported that during these raids in mountainous and forested areas, the most wanted Islamic guerrilla, Antar Zouabri, was killed on July 22.
		Zouabri is the leader of the most hardline of Algeria's insurgency movements, the Armed Islamic Group, whose attacks on villages have often been marked by acts of mutilation.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/newviol.htm (907 words)

	mostly AFRICA
		The Press reported in July that Abou Tourab was one of 15 armed Islamic extremists killed during a security forces operation in the Tamezguida forest, known to be a GIA stronghold in the Medea region, south of Algiers.
		Algerian newspapers had also reported the death of Abou Tourab’s predecessor, Antar Zouabri, several times before he was confirmed killed in a gun battle with security forces in the town of Boufarik, south of Algiers.
		Giving the [European Union Observer] mission's preliminary assessment at a Maputo press conference on Friday, its leader, Jose Mendiluce, said that the voting "from the opening of the polling stations through to the count went absolutely normally, and the secrecy of the vote was guaranteed".
	mostlyafrica.blogspot.com /2003_11_16_mostlyafrica_archive.html (1670 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: What We Do Not Know About Terrorism by Michael Radu
		The result was that in February 2002, Zouabri shared the fate of six of the GIA’s previous leader — he was killed by government forces.
		It should be pointed out that Zouabri was correctly described as “the worst criminal in Algerian history;” indeed, under his leadership (1996 — 2002) the GIA was probably responsible for tens of thousand of murders.
		The reason was that he declared the entire Algerian people — or at least the 99.9% who did not support the GIA, as “infidels” and thus as legitimate targets for murder.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9675 (981 words)

	Print Message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		If the death is confirmed of Antar Zouabri, head of Algeria’s ultra-violent Armed Islamic Group, the global war on terror will have chalked up a major coup.
		Zouabri took the GIA over when Djamel Zeitouni was killed in 1996.
		DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources believe that the Algerian terrorists, while on the move to Cuba, may have inadvertently given away a clue to the whereabouts of Zouabri.
	www.suite101.com /print_message.cfm/investing/68672/600224 (413 words)

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