11.   A political cartoonist for a pro-government newspaper was found shot dead earlier Monday, a day after the bodies of two foreign nuns and an Algerian journalist were found.

12.   Algerian journalists reacted with indignation, accusing the government of trying to whitewash the violence that still wracks the country.

13.   Algerian journalist Salim Ghezali, recognized as an astute observer, fears the truce call could push violence up another notch.

14.   Algerian journalists immediately decried the move, saying it was meant to distort the true magnitude of frequent clashes between Islamic radicals and government security forces.

15.   Algerian journalists reacted with anger, accusing the government of trying to whitewash the violence that still wracks the country.

16.   An Algerian journalist was seriously injured when hit by a bus fleeing a burning depot.

17.   An Algerian journalist is shot three times in the head while seated in his car.

18.   But the opposition and many Algerian journalists disagreed, suggesting turnout figures and results were fabricated.

19.   Dozens of people were injured, including an Algerian journalist who was seriously hurt by a bus fleeing a burning depot.

20.   Extremist Islamic rebels have long targeted Algerian journalists and other intellectuals in their four-year battle to topple the secular state and install a strict Islamic regime.