11.   Nobody claimed reponsibility, although such killings are usually blamed on Islamic militants waging a bloody insurgency against the military-backed government.

12.   President Liamine Zeroual on Saturday signed into law constitutional changes, including a ban on Islamic parties, approved last month by Algerian voters weary of a bloody insurgency.

13.   Some opposition parties say the vote will be meaningless, and a bloody insurgency will continue, without the Front in the election.

14.   The Algerian Islamic party whose banishment sparked a bloody insurgency that marked its sixth anniversary Sunday blasted the military-backed government and demanded a probe of recent massacres.

15.   That cancellation triggered a bloody insurgency by Muslim militants who claim their victory was stolen by the military-backed government.

16.   The Algerian leader, fighting a bloody insurgency at home, left Sunday on an African trip that will take him to Mozambique, South Africa and Namibia.

17.   The move triggered the bloody insurgency.

18.   Islamic insurgents have waged a bloody insurgency against the government for the last four years.

19.   The report comes amid increasing hope that the government may readmit Moslem fundamentalists into the political process and end the bloody insurgency.