Algerian forces shoot dead militant leader

Updated: 09:03, Monday, 21 June 2004

Security forces in Algeria say they have killed the leader of an Islamic militant group with links to al-Qaeda.

Security forces in Algeria say they have killed the leader of an Islamic militant group with links to al-Qaeda. 

Soldiers cornered and shot Nabil Sahraoui about 150 miles east of the capital, Algiers. 

He is described as the leader of a group that has been involved in the Islamist insurgency in Algeria in which 150,000 people have died.

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