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Despite ban Saudis hold protests

Fri Apr 15, 2011

Hundreds of anti-government protesters have taken to the streets of Saudi Arabia, demanding the release of political prisoners and an end to Saudi military presence in Bahrain.

In the capital Riyadh, the protesters gathered outside the interior ministry and urged Saudi authorities to release what they called “forgotten political prisoners” who have been detained for demanding reforms in their country, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Protesters say prisoners are being held unjustly and without trial, some for as long as 16 years.

In the eastern city of Qatif, protesters poured into the streets, condemning Saudi Arabia's military intervention in Bahrain.

Expressing solidarity with anti-government protesters in Bahrain, the Saudis urged the immediate withdrawal of the Kingdom's troops from the neighboring country.

Saudi Arabia's military intervention in Bahrain comes despite the convention of the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council, which bans any interference in the regional countries' domestic affairs.

They also called for the release of political prisoners and an end to human rights violations in the country.

Saudi Arabia's oil-producing east has been the scene of anti-government protests over the past weeks.

According to a Saudi-based human rights group, Saudi authorities have arrested one hundred protesters for taking part or organizing anti-government demonstrations.

Human Rights First Society (HRFS) also revealed that some of the detainees were subject to torture both physically and mentally.

In Saudi Arabia, protest rallies and any public displays of dissent are forbidden and are considered illegal. Senior Wahhabi clerics in the kingdom have also censured opposition demonstrations as "un-Islamic."

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/174970.html.

Walkouts shut two Saudi airports

Fri Apr 15, 2011

Workers at two international airports in Saudi Arabia have gone on strike, forcing the cancellation of a number of flights, reports say.

No reason has yet been officially reported for the strike at King Khalid and King Abdul Aziz airports in Jeddah, which has left thousands of passengers stranded.

Some airline workers, however, say that passengers have been stranded due to disruption in the computer systems.

Saudi Arabia has been the scene of anti-regime protests in the past few months. The demonstrators are calling for the withdrawal of Saudi troops from the neighboring Bahrain.

Saudi Arabia sent 1,000 troops to Bahrain to help Manama in its brutal crackdown on anti-regime protesters.

Muslims around the world have denounced Saudi Arabia's military intervention in Bahrain.

Saudi protesters are also calling for the release of all political prisoners held in Saudi jails without trial for years as well as an end to human rights violations in the kingdom.

According to a Saudi-based human rights group, Saudi authorities have arrested one hundred protesters for taking part or organizing the anti-government demonstrations.

Human Rights First Society (HRFS) also revealed that some of the detainees were subject to torture both physically and mentally.

In Saudi Arabia, protest rallies and any public displays of dissent are forbidden and are considered illegal. Senior Wahhabi clerics in the kingdom have also censured opposition demonstrations as "un-Islamic."

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/174942.html.

Arab women condemn torture in Bahrain

Sat Apr 16, 2011

A group of Arab women and activists have gathered in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, to condemn the use of torture against Bahrain's protesters and the regime's crackdown on opposition groups.

According to the human rights activists, a number of women, doctors, nurses and teachers were “detained in Bahrain even killed” while trying to make their voices heard, a Press TV correspondent reported.

“Women are being jailed in Bahrain because they want freedom and democracy. It is unacceptable to treat women like this under Islamic law and tradition,” said Nahed Mehros, a Syrian civil rights activist.

The campaign was aimed at drawing international attention to the oppression on the Bahraini women. Organizers urged human rights groups around the world to condemn the use of torture.

“We have put a case before the ICC [International Criminal Court] against the kingdom of Bahrain. I am trying now to tell everybody how to go through legal ways against what is happening in Bahrain,” said May el-Khansa from International Coalition Against Impunity.

Advocates condemned what they called the inaction of the international community and the silenced media, and demanded the recognition of the situation of women in crisis-hit Bahrain.

“Media reports are not clarifying a lot. There are a lot of human rights NGOs that say that there is a total abuse for the detainees. But I think the international NGOs are not doing a lot,” to prevent the use of torture in Bahraini jails, said Leila Nicolas Al-Rahbani, the professor of Lebanon's International University.

According to the Press TV correspondent, one Bahraini woman has died in captivity while tens of others remain detained in undisclosed locations. The women were either detained during anti-government protests or as they were carrying out their job duties.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/175089.html.

Islamic activists protest Syria's Bashar Assad in Istanbul

ISTANBUL — Pro-Islamic activists denounced Syrian leader Bashar Assad for his security forces' violent crackdown of protests there, following Friday prayers at a mosque in Istanbul.

Some 300 Turkish worshipers also held funeral prayers for Syrians killed during the demonstrations outside Istanbul's historic Beyazit mosque.

Some of them chanted: "The oppressors will drown in the blood of the martyrs."

Over the past weeks, Syrian forces have fired tear gas and live bullets at protesters, who are demanding greater reforms than the limited concessions offered by Assad. A key demand is the end to the decades-old emergency laws, which allow the regime a free hand to arrest people without charge.

Turkey has urged Syria's leader to carry out widespread reforms.

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Syria's young cyber activists keep protests in view

Hugh Macleod and a correspondent in Damascus
Friday 15 April 2011

Citizen journalists defy threats of violence to replace harassed local reporters and banned foreign media with web technology.

He's got sim cards and pseudonyms, cigarettes and light fingers that dance across the touchpad in a mad ballet of digital information sharing. "Now I'm receiving reports of four people killed in Deraa. They opened fire there now," says Rami Nakhle.

Staring down at his laptop, Nakhle reconnects, for the eighth time that afternoon, a Skype call to a protester in Banias, a port on Syria's western Mediterranean coast. "Now I will tell demonstrators in Banias there are four killed in Deraa," he says, sucking back on a cigarette.

On the laptop screen is the pixelated image of a man holding an olive branch in one hand and a mobile phone in the other, which he is using as a video camera to stream, via the social media program Qik, live images of tens of thousands of protesters in Banias directly into Nakhle's laptop, ready for uploading to YouTube.

Over a faltering digital connection, Nakhle tells his colleague in Banias about the deaths in Deraa. The message is relayed to a protester with a megaphone, who broadcasts it to the masses. Ten minutes later the reaction comes in: "OK, now we can hear chanting in Banias, 'With our souls, with our blood, we sacrifice to you Deraa.' And they are in Banias, a different side of the country!"

Among unprecedented and growing protests against the 41-year dictatorship of the Assad family over Syria, social media mavens such as Nakhle are emerging as the thread that binds disparate protests together. Foreign media have been all but barred from reporting from Syria and dozens of local and Arab journalists have been arrested or expelled. In their place, Syria's cyber activists are using social media and technology to ensure reporting gets out, linking the protesters on the street with the eyes and ears of the world.

It's a risky business. Nakhle, who was known as Malath Omran until his real identity was made public last week by the Syrian secret police, lives in a secret location in Beirut and receives regular threats on his Facebook and Twitter accounts from what he believes are Syrian security agents, which range from the comic – "Have you started using Pampers yet?" – to the chilling.

"My sister was arrested for two months and 24 days just for saying she didn't think the president was very smart during a conversation at Damascus University," says Nakhle.

"So Syrian security posted a message on my wall saying, 'You have until midnight tonight to announce your withdrawal from the Syrian revolution or we will get her.'"

Another activist, a 26-year-old woman based in Damascus who did not want to be named, and who uploads protest footage to YouTube, explained how the Syrians have learned from their Tunisian and Egyptian counterparts.

"We use a proxy server and change it almost every day," she said. "Today most young Syrians have mobile phones with high quality cameras so each one has become like a journalist. I upload videos and statements from internet cafes. I leave after 10 minutes and don't come back to the same one for a long time."

Reporters Without Borders lists Syria as one of 10 countries that are active "internet enemies". Hundreds of websites remain blocked, most of them run by political movements perceived to be opposed to the regime in Damascus.

Until last month, Syria held one of the eldest and the youngest political prisoners in the world, 82-year-old Haithem Maleh, a veteran human rights campaigner who was released, and 19-year-old student blogger Tal al-Mallouhi, who remains behind bars.

"Many of my friends were arrested in the last few days, especially the activists behind the computers," says Razan Zeitouna, a lawyer and human rights researcher who has played a key role inside Syria connecting activists with the media outside. She has been interrogated many times by the secret police.

"Each time they tell me, 'This is the last time you get out. Next time you'll never see the sun again.'" But, like other activists,

Zeitouna fears for the life of the historic movement she has played a part in. "We lost so many young people in our mission," she says, pausing for a moment on the Skype line. "The thought of us not achieving our goals would mean it had all been for nothing. That's what makes us scared."

Source: The Guardian.
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/15/syria-activists-protests-in-view.

WikiLeaks: Hariri proposed new Syria regime

Leaked diplomatic cables allege that Saad Al-Hariri suggested isolating Bashar Al-Assad and forming a coalition of Muslim Brotherhood and former regime figures to take power.

Ahram Online, Saturday 16 Apr 2011

A WikiLeaks document published by a Lebanese daily claims that former prime minister and head of the Future Movement Saad Al-Hariri called for the isolation of the Syrian regime in 2006.

Hariri reportedly suggested replacing Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad with a coalition that included the Muslim Brotherhood and several individuals that were once part of the regime.

Hizbullah-friendly Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar published the leaked documents the day Syrian authorities accused "Lebanese forces." including a Future Movement MP, of supplying a "terrorist group" with arms and funds to incite them to overthrow the regime.

Syria has been struggling with unprecedented pro-reform protests for the past month.

According to the leaked diplomatic cable, Hariri, who was not yet in office at the time, met on 24 August 2006 with US officials and urged for the isolation of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad warning of unrest in Lebanon following a speech in which Al-Assad threatened a civil war in Lebanon, Al-Akhbar wrote.

The leaked document added that with regards to who would fill the void left in Damascus should the regime fall, Hariri suggested a coalition between the Muslim Brotherhood and some figures that were once part of the regime.

Former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam and former army Chief of Staff Hekmat Al-Shehaby were among the figures.

Hariri and the 14 March Alliance had accused Syria of orchestrating former Prime Minister Rafiq Al-Hariri’s assassination on 14 February 2005 in Beirut. The car bombing that claimed Hariri’s life also killed 22 others and was followed by a series of assassinations of prominent Lebanese anti-Syria figures.

The Syrian army withdrew from Lebanon in April 2005 in the aftermath of the assassination following three decades of occupation. After Syria’s withdrawal, Hariri was elected to parliament heading a new majority.

Source: Ahram.
Link: http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/10122.aspx.

Lebanon seizes Syria-bound armaments

Thu Apr 14, 2011

Lebanese security forces have reportedly intercepted two vehicles carrying weapons and ammunitions to Syria amid Damascus' complaints of foreign intervention.

On Thursday, the forces detained two people trying to drive the vehicles into Syria in the border area of the eastern Bekaa Valley, Reuters reported.

“The cars had AK-47s, semi-automatic weapons, and some bombs,” one security source said.

Since mid-March, Syria has been struggling with weeks of protests that have left scores of people dead, including security forces.

Also on Thursday, a group of snipers opened fire on Syrian soldiers in the western part of the country, killing one serviceman and injuring another.

The government has blamed the protests on armed gangs and foreign powers.

On Wednesday Syrian State TV broadcast pictures of what it described as confessions by members of a terrorist group. Security forces say the group's members received money and arms from foreign elements to carry out terrorist operations and incite unrest.

The authorities have also announced the arrest of foreign elements that have played a role in provoking the recent tensions in Syria.

Damascus has repeatedly denied allegations that its security forces were responsible for shooting at protesters, insisting that officers were given clear instructions not to harm civilians.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/174775.html.

Hamas condemns Italian activist killing

Fri Apr 15, 2011

The Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas has condemned the murder of an Italian activist in the Gaza Strip, describing the killing as a "heinous crime."

Vittorio Arrigoni, a pro-Palestinian activist, was found hanged in an abandoned house north of Gaza City hours after being abducted on Thursday by a radical group.

"We in the Palestinian government express our condolences to the Italian people and government for the killing of the Italian activist, and offer our condolences to his family and friends. We value his role and the international solidarity movement's role to support the Palestinian issue", Gaza Strip's democratically- elected Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on Friday.

A radical group calling itself Monotheism and Holy War posted a video on You Tube on Thursday showing Arrigoni blindfolded, threatening to execute the Italian activist by 1400 GMT on Friday unless Hamas frees several members of the group, including their leader, Sheikh Abu Walid al-Maqdasi.

According to the Hamas interior ministry, Arrigoni was killed even before the given deadline and soon after being abducted.

Despite the existence of the video, the group released a statement on Friday denying involvement in Arrigoni's death.

Hamas officials say two people have been arrested in connection with the murder.

Interior ministry spokesman Ehab al-Ghussein has vowed to hunt down and bring to justice all those who were involved in the killing.

The killing "has nothing to do with our values, our religion, our customs and traditions," al-Ghussein said.

Hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza attended a protest rally condemning Arrigoni's killing.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/174999.html.

Obama Sees Libya 'Stalemate,' Qaddafi's Eventual Departure

By Flavia Krause-Jackson and Patrick Donahue - Apr 16, 2011

Forces loyal to Muammar Qaddafi shelled Libya’s rebel-held coastal city of Misrata as U.S. President Barack Obama said the conflict has become a “stalemate on the ground militarily.”

Qaddafi is “getting squeezed” in many ways, Obama said in an interview with the Associated Press. “I think over the long term, Qaddafi will go and we will be successful.”

The attacks on Misrata, the main rebel-held city in the west, have made Libya’s third-largest city a symbol of the limitations of NATO’s air campaign to protect civilians. Qaddafi’s forces have fired ground-to-ground Grad rockets and cluster bombs, a type of anti-personnel munition that scatters small bomblets over a wide area, into residential areas, the New York Times and Human Rights Watch reported.

Cluster bombs “pose a huge risk to civilians, both during attacks because of their indiscriminate nature and afterward because of the still-dangerous unexploded duds scattered about,” said Steve Goose, arms division director at Human Rights Watch.

Obama acknowledged the limits to what air power can do in situations such as Misrata. “The fact of the matter is that, in the absence of actual soldiers on the ground, Qaddafi’s forces are still going to be able to at least defend their current positions, particularly when we’re concerned about collateral damage, civilian casualties,” he said in the interview.

Tanks, Rockets

Rebels have struggled for weeks to take and hold cities in central Libya, which have been the focus of most of the fighting since the uprising began in February. Opposition forces today advanced once again on the strategic oil town of Brega after four days of NATO airstrikes there, Al Jazeera television reported.

Mustafa Gheriani, a spokesman for the opposition Transitional National Council, said he disagreed with Obama’s comments about a stalemate. “The revolution is continuing all over Libya, in Misrata, in Zentan and the Amazeegh area, even in Tripoli,” he said today in an interview in the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Berlin, where NATO foreign ministers met to try to resolve differences over Libya, that the alliance has a “solid and sustainable” consensus on objectives and that “we all need to be a bit patient.”

Clinton said that while she wasn’t aware of the use of cluster bombs over Misrata, “I am not surprised by anything that Colonel Qaddafi and his forces do.”

Fighting in Misrata at close quarters makes things “difficult,” she added.

Long Mission

North Atlantic Treaty Organization leaders “are now realizing that this is not a very short mission,” German Deputy Foreign Minister Werner Hoyer said in an interview yesterday. “It takes much longer, it’s much more complicated, it’s much more demanding than some had expected.” Germany is one of the NATO members opposed to the military action, although it backs economic and political measures to force Qaddafi from power.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, challenging the extent of the military operations, said NATO must move “urgently” toward a political solution. “Using excessive military force will lead to additional casualties among civilians,” he said in Berlin where he joined talks with NATO foreign ministers.

Oil Markets

Oil rebounded as U.S. consumer sentiment and industrial output increased, signaling higher fuel demand in the world’s biggest crude-consuming country. Crude oil for May delivery increased $1.55, or 1.4 percent, to settle at $109.66 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange yesterday.

Elsewhere in the region, activists said Syrian security forces blocked roads to thwart protesters whose defiance of President Bashar al-Assad persisted for a fifth Friday after the announcement of Cabinet changes two days ago. Routes to the Damascus suburbs of Douma and Harasta were blocked by vans and concrete blocks as thousands of people took to the streets, Damascus-based human-rights activist Razan Zaitouneh said on her Facebook page. There were rallies in Homs, Aleppo, Qamishli, the port city of Latakia and Daraa, a flash point for dissent last month, she said.

Clashes between protesters and authorities in Jordan left 83 security officers and eight civilians injured, Al Arabiya television said, citing the country’s head of general security.

Regional Unrest

In Yemen, protesters around the country rejected a Gulf Cooperation Council plan to end political turmoil because it doesn’t insist on President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s immediate departure.

Foreign ministers from NATO’s 28 member states and leaders from other allied nations took part in the talks in Berlin.

“We are also searching for ways to provide funding for the opposition so that that they can take care of some of these needs themselves,” including helping the rebels sell oil, Clinton said. The rebels are seeking to borrow $2 billion secured by Libyan government assets abroad that have been frozen.

The opposition has drafted a constitution that calls for full equality regardless of race or religion and freedom of speech and peaceful assembly, the Wall Street Journal reported on its website, citing Abdel Moneim Bendardf, a senior adviser to the movement’s leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil. The document was drafted by a group of intellectuals for the interim Transitional National Council, the newspaper said.

Allied Participants

Only 14 NATO members -- plus Sweden, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates -- are participating in some aspect of the military operation known as “Unified Protector,” most under rules preventing them from attacking Qaddafi’s forces except in self-defense. About five NATO nations, led by France and the U.K., are known to be targeting Qaddafi’s ground forces.

Obama said the international intervention, under a UN Security Council mandate, has averted an assault on rebel-held Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city.

“Some civilians may be still getting killed, but we don’t have wholesale slaughter in places like Benghazi, a city of 700,000” and Qaddafi “is getting squeezed in all different kinds of ways,” Obama said in the AP interview.

“He’s running out of money. He is running out of supplies. The noose is tightening, and he is becoming more and more isolated,” Obama said. “And my expectation is, is that if we continue to apply that pressure and continue to protect civilians, which NATO is doing very capably, then I think over the long term, Qaddafi will go and we will be successful.”

‘Goof Participation’

Obama said he sees no need to increase the U.S. military role “at this point.”

“We’ve gotten good participation from our coalition partners. They are doing exactly what they promised they would do,” he said. “They are still striking at targets, Qaddafi targets, particularly those that start moving on the offensive against opposition areas. And what we’re doing is we’re still providing jamming capacity, intelligence, refueling.

“So we’ve still got a lot of planes in the air up there,” he said. “We’re just not the ones who are involved in the direct strikes on the ground for the most part.”

NATO said in a statement April 14 that allies taking part in the conflict set three conditions for ending air strikes on Qaddafi’s forces: an end to all attacks by Qaddafi loyalists on civilians, withdrawing soldiers to bases, and allowing aid into the country.

Source: Bloomberg.
Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-15/obama-sees-libya-stalemate-on-the-ground-qaddafi-ousted-over-long-term-.html.

Egypt offers to help slain activist's family enter Gaza

17/04/2011

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Egyptian authorities have offered to make arrangements for the family of murdered Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni to enter Gaza, Egyptian Ambassador to the Palestinian Authority Yaser Othman said.

"Egypt will work on allowing the activist's family to enter Gaza via Rafah as well as facilitating moving his body through the same crossing back to Italy," Othman said.

The ambassador said the arrangements would be made Sunday, and added that Egyptian authorities were ready to help the family in any way they could.

Arrigoni, 36, who was working with the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement, was found dead by Hamas security forces in a house in northern Gaza early on Friday.

He had been hanged, security officials said.

Arrigoni was kidnapped a day earlier by a Salafist group which had demanded that Hamas release Salafist prisoners within a 30-hour deadline that was to have expired on Friday afternoon. It was not clear why they killed him.

Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Friday called Arrigoni's mother to express his and his government's condolences for the death of her son. He explained the efforts the government is making to prosecute those responsible, Hamas officials said.

Haniyeh said the government would consider Vittorio a Palestinian martyr and name a street after him.

The government has sent its condolences to the Italian government and people. It ordered the foreign ministry and government media office to intensify efforts to coordinate with concerned parties and took a decision to form a delegation to Italy to pay its respects to the victim's loved ones.

Source: Ma'an News Agency.
Link: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=379323.

Egyptian court outlaws Mubarak's party

CAIRO, April 16 (UPI) -- An Egyptian court Saturday ordered the old regime's National Democratic Party disbanded and its assets confiscated.

Al-Masry al-Youm reported the court found ousted President Hosni Mubarak's party violated its proclaimed principles, fostered corruption and undermined constitutional freedoms.

NDP members are free to form new parties, however, and a "New National Democratic Party" has been established, led by Talaat al-Sadat, nephew of assassinated President Anwar al-Sadat.

Founded by Sadat in 1978, the NDP dominated Parliament through rigged elections and controlled all state institutions.

The party's dissolution has been high on the revolutionaries' agenda, and many of its offices were sacked during the uprising, the BBC noted.

Mubarak, who resigned Feb. 11, is being held in a military hospital before facing corruption charges, and his sons, Gamal and Alaa, are in prison.

Source: United Press International (UPI).
Link: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/04/16/Egyptian-court-outlaws-Mubaraks-party/UPI-58931302975487/.

Militants kill 13 soldiers east of Algiers: security source

ALGIERS | Sat Apr 16, 2011

(Reuters) - Islamist militants killed 13 Algerian soldiers in the country's northern Kabylie region, the deadliest attack in months, a security source told Reuters on Saturday.

The ambush was located between Azazga and Yakouren, east of the city of Tizi Ouzou, an area considered a stronghold of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

"The attack was Friday at around 19:15," the security source, who asked not to be named, told Reuters.

Al Qaeda's north African wing, formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), has claimed responsibility for a string of bombings and attacks in the OPEC member country in recent years.

The group is the remnants of a much bigger insurgency that waged civil war in Algeria in the 1990s in which an estimated 200,000 people were killed. The violence has largely subsided after the government offered successive amnesties to encourage rebels to disarm.

(Reporting by Lamine Chikhi, Editing by Peter Graff)

Source: Reuters.
Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/16/us-algeria-attack-idUSTRE73F1K320110416.

14 Algerian soldiers die in attack

ALGIERS, Algeria, April 16 (UPI) -- An attack by militants on an army outpost in Azazga left 14 Algerian soldiers dead and a dozen wounded, security sources told Ennahar Online.

People living near where the 2-hour battle took place Friday night east of Algiers, told Ennahar at least one insurgent was killed.

The fighting occurred the same day Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in a bid to ease tensions in the country, said he would seek constitutional revisions. In his televised address, Bouteflika said he would seek amendments to "reinforce representative democracy" in Algeria.

The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday some political analysts criticized the president's approach to mollify citizens.

"It is in no way a program of democratic transition. It's a speech to buy time," said political analyst Chafik Mesbah, a former high-ranking army officer.

Bouteflika's announcement is in addition to other bids to curb anti-government protests in Algeria.

Observers said Bouteflika is trying to spend his way out the unrest that began in January.

Algerians are angry about unemployment and inflation, and the government previously announced measures to reduce the cost of housing and provide new government jobs.

Source: United Press International (UPI).
Link: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/04/16/14-Algerian-soldiers-die-in-attack/UPI-80911302972116/.