Despite Ban, Algiers Protest Is Due Today
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ALGIERS — Algeria braced for more bloody confrontations after fundamentalists said they will defy a ban and stage a protest march today in the capital.
Heightening the tensions, an Algerian sailor and two Muslim fundamentalist assailants were killed Thursday in the latest attack on security forces by Muslim fundamentalists, state radio reported.
Nine policemen have been killed in attacks blamed on hard-line fundamentalists since the military-backed government imposed a 12-month state of emergency on Sunday.
Supporters of the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front, which the government is seeking to dissolve, spread word door-to-door through the poor quarters of the capital that the protest march will go ahead after today’s weekly prayers.
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