Information AboutAbdelbaki Sahraoui |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT ABDELBAKI SAHRAOUI | |
| 1910 births | |
| sahraoui, abdelbaki | |
| 1995 deaths | |
| algerian people | |
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He was born in 1910 in Constantine, Algeria . In 1926 , he joined the circle of Sheikh Mubarak El-Mili . Five years later, he was conscripted by the French army, where he spent two years. He then moved to Algiers , where he was involved with the Muslim Scholars' Society. In 1990, he helped found the FIS; after the Algerian Civil War began, he fled to Paris , from which he preached in favor of armed struggle - Jihad - against the Algerian government. He was assassinated in Paris on July 11 , 1995 by the Armed Islamic Group , the GIA (although some question the authenticity of their statement claiming credit for this.) SOURCES |