Thu, 20 Feb 1997

Algeria must crush terrorists

The series of terror continues in Algeria, the latest episode being the horrific killing of 33 villagers including women and children which was reported yesterday.

These events and their frightening consequences, however, will not daunt the Algerian people from confronting foreign agents, restoring revolutionary glories and preserving the country's sovereignty.

These calamities and their grievous effects will increase the Algerian people's determination to stop bloodletting through patience and courage.

The bloodstained hands which perpetrated the massacres in Algeria cannot be Islamic as proclaimed by the Western media.

Violence and bloodshed will not achieve the schemes of regional and international terrorists who are without doubt not Algerians but stooges or mercenaries working to destabilize Algeria.

The interpretation of the current events in Algeria by the Western media has malicious targets which aim at achieving certain gains, the price of which is the lives of the Algerian people and government.

-- Al-Bayan, Dubai