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Reports: Algerian security thwarts planned attack
Sep 11 2008, AP

Algerian security services have thwarted a possible Sept. 11 terrorist attack in eastern Algeria, a security official and local media reported Thursday, as thousands of army troops and police conducted anti-terror sweeps throughout the North African...

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