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...prison massacre was the most deadly confrontation yet in what Western journalists have called Algeria's ``hidden war,'' the violent campaign begun three years ago by Islamist factions against the military-dominated government that they accuse of stealing their legitimate power. The events at Serkadji prove just how much the conflict has become a virtual civil...
...grisly slashing of throats--the method of murder favored by Islamist militants--has instilled terror in the country's collective psyche. But Serkadji prison is also symbolic: it became infamous during the 1954-62 war of independence as the place where French forces tortured, imprisoned and guillotined Algerian guerrillas. Today it is where the government holds 1,000 of as many as 30,000 Islamists reportedly jailed around the country. One former inmate told TIME he had been held for six weeks of solitary confinement in a dark, rat-infested underground cell, tormented by two prison guards...
...Shkaki spoke with Time correspondent Lara Marlowe in Damascus, giving a chilling picture of how he says the attack was planned. Though he disclaimed direct responsibility, he was obviously pleased, grinning and laughing throughout the interview. Born in the Gaza Strip, Shkaki, 44, joined the Muslim Brotherhood, a conservative Islamist group, while studying medicine in Egypt in the '70s. He returned to the Gaza Strip in 1981 and founded Islamic Jihad. Shkaki's movement set itself apart from other groups with similar names by staging suicide attacks in Israel and the occupied territories. Deported in 1988, he has been directing...
...same time the government rounds up Islamists wholesale--and often times, worse. A vocal contingent of Algerian officials who have been dubbed 'Eradicators' still feel the best way to resolve the crisis is to quash any Islamist opposition mercilessly...
...flushed Carlos out of Syria, where he had been given sanctuary for much of the past decade. By the time he was traced to Khartoum earlier this year, he had run out of havens. France's daily Liberation reported that France had cut a deal giving Sudan's Islamist government some satellite photos of Christian rebel positions in the countryside in exchange for Carlos' extradition. France, which has a reputation for horse trading in the Middle East, denied there was any payoff...