Never grant concessions to the mujahedin. They will only see them as a sign of weakness. "Rebel militants kill five," from AFP, with thanks to DFS:
ALGERIAN militants killed five civilians, including a mayor, stepping up attacks days after the start of an amnesty for rebels aimed at ending more than a decade of strife, residents and newspapers said overnight.Suspected members of al Qaeda-linked group the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) shot dead mayor Brahim Jellab outside his house on Friday night in Boumerdes province, 50 km east of the capital Algiers, residents said....
Algeria began an amnesty this month as part of efforts to end violence that broke out when the authorities cancelled elections in 1992 that a now-banned Islamic party was poised to win. An estimated 200,000 people have been killed since then.
The peace drive includes the mass release of jailed Islamic militants as well as compensation for victims, including the families of about 8,000 missing people.
The amnesty gave those rebels still fighting six months to surrender, provided they were not involved in massacres, rapes or bombings of public places.
This is the flipside of the repressive anti-Christian edicts we discussed earlier in the weeks. And if they backfire as badly as this one seems to be doing, we may look forward to a powerful Christian presence in Algeria in our lifetimes. Sometimes it seems to me that governments exist only so that God, or fate, or blind luck if you will, may laugh at their irrelevant attempts to organize the future and go on with His/their own plans.
Aha! It was after an important concession had been made to the terrorists that they started up their murder campaign again. Israel has been living with this for many years. Some of our politicians still don't understand it. Something else here should also elicit deliberation and consideration. That is, that the victims are fellow Sunni Muslim Arabs. How can that be explained by those want to blame everything on Israel or by those who saw the Lebanese Christians as foreign, Western implants in an Arab land??
Just what would you expect from Muslims.
Muslims do not have to honor treaties or calls for peace for Allah says they do not.