Algerian terror leader killed in military strike

ONE of North Africa’s most-wanted terror leaders, who allied his group with Osama bin Laden, has been killed, the Algerian military said yesterday.

Nabil Sahraoui, one of his key right-hand men and a “good number” of his other lieutenants were killed in a military sweep, the army said in a radio broadcast. Newspapers said the military cornered them in the Kabylie region east of the capital, Algiers.

The death of Sahraoui, head of the armed Salafist Group for Call and Combat, marked a major coup for Algerian government efforts to suppress Islamic terrorism.