Algeria: grand total of 24 al Qaeda scumbags killed

10 were killed on Saturday in a raid in Sidi Yahia. They were planning "spectacular operation with media effect" in the name of the rebel group Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa. 14 were killed in their mountain hideouts on Sunday.

Their previous handiwork includes: claiming responsibility for two double-suicide attacks in Algiers. The most recent, in December, destroyed UN offices, damaged a government building and killed 37 people, including 17 members of the UN staff.

Algeria has been battling an Islamic insurgency since 1992, when the army cancelled the second round of Algeria's first multiparty elections to block a likely victory by a now-banned Muslim fundamentalist party. As many as 200,000 people are estimated to have died in the violence, which had largely ebbed until militants began working under the al-Qaida banner.

200000 people killed and not a peep out of the so-called Islamic moderates of the world. Why is that, I wonder???