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VIDEO: Cars swept away in France flooding October 4, 2015
Footage filmed on the streets of Cannes shows cars displaced in the aftermath of flooding that has killed at least 13 people.
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VIDEO: Hungary 'in no hurry to close borders' October 4, 2015
Of the 180,000 refugees and migrants who entered Germany in September, 140,000 passed through Hungary.
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VIDEO: Catholic priest 'happy to be gay' October 4, 2015
A senior priest at the Vatican has revealed he is gay, on the eve of a major meeting set to discuss the Catholic Church's teaching on family.
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VIDEO: Many dead in Guatemala landslide October 3, 2015
Guatemalan authorities say the number of people killed when a hillside collapsed on houses in the village of El Cambray, 15km (nine miles) outside the capital, has risen to 56.
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VIDEO: Pakistan's first female fire fighter October 3, 2015
Shazia Parveen is breaking taboos in Pakistan by becoming the country's only female fire fighter.
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VIDEO: Oregon gunman killed himself October 3, 2015
Police in the US state of Oregon reveal that the gunman who shot dead nine fellow students at a community college also killed himself.
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VIDEO: UN denounces Kunduz hospital bombing October 3, 2015
The UN says the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, was "tragic, inexcusable and possibly even criminal".
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VIDEO: Farmers find woolly mammoth skeleton October 3, 2015
Farmers in Michigan uncover a woolly mammoth skeleton in a soybean field.
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VIDEO: Hurricane Joaquin lashes Bahamas October 3, 2015
State of emergency declared for parts of the US east coast as Joaquin continues to move from the Bahamas towards Bermuda.
– ABDELHAK LAYADA
Abdelhak Layada, also known as Abu Adlane, was a senior member in the Algerian “Islamic Salvation Front”, which won the 12/1991 general elections in Algeria. He was one of the founders of GIA when the Algerian civil war breached out in 01/1992.
Already before the elections and the following Algerian civil war, in the 80s’, Abdelhak Layada was known in Algeria as an address for those who want to go to Afghanistan to fight against the Russians and to join the Mujahideen (Holy Warriors ).
After the death of GIA first leader Mohamed Allel, in 01/1993, Abdelhak Layada led the organization up to his arrest, in Morocco, on 09/29/1993. He focused his operations against foreigners, who assisted the Algerian military regime and broadened the terror campaign to Europe, mainly France.
Abdelhak Layada was extradited back to Algeria and sentenced, in 06/1995, to death for his role in the civil war, in which some 165,000 people died, but his sentence was suspended.
On 03/13/2006 Abdelhak Layada was released from Algerian jail as part of a national conciliation program, that was initiated by the Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, which included amnesty to those who would renounce violence and terror.
Today (10/2008) Abdelhak Layada is a free citizen living in the Southern outskirts of the Capital Algiers.
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