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Article: Algerian zealots who take pleasure in slitting the throats of infidels.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 16, 2003
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Byline: KEITH DOVKANTS;STEVE BOGGAN
EVEN those inured to the horrors of terrorism find watching the so-called "Algeria" video a particularly upsetting experience.
The film is short, but it contains a scene - repeated no fewer than five times - in which a young man's throat is cut.
The camera lingers over the fountain of blood that spurts and bubbles from his carotid artery.
The victim is a soldier in Algeria's military, his executioner is a member of a terrorist group that distributed the video to Muslims in London as part of a drive to recruit new volunteers. Copies of the film - sold at pound sterling10 a time in mosques and black ...