location: Sidi Daoud
notes: A leader of Algerias largest hardline Islamic insurgents, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), has been killed by security forces outside Algiers. Lounis Mohamed, better known as Youcef Abou El Bassir, was killed Saturday in Sidi Daoud forest near Boumerdes.
target_text: location: Sidi Daoud, fatalities: 1