1.   ALGERIAN security forces shot dead eight Muslim extremists in running gun battles in the streets of Algiers yesterday.

2.   MUSLIM fundamentalists yesterday fired on a schoolbus carrying children of members of the Algerian security forces, seriously wounding the driver.

3.   Some French officials said that Algerian security had been lax.

4.   A new State Department report has criticized both the Muslim militants and Algerian security forces for human rights abuses, which prompted Algiers to summon the U.S. ambassador.

5.   According to a source close to the Algerian security services, five of the adolescents were knifed to death while the six was shot in the head.

6.   Algerian security forces announced later Saturday that attackers had slit the throats of seven people late Friday in a suburb of Medea, Ouled Aissa.

7.   Algerian security forces launched a search for the monks, well-known in the area for growing crops and working with local farmers.

8.   Algerian security forces moved in quickly and sealed off the area.

9.   Algerian security forces have also fingered Rihane as a leader of the Air France hijacking.