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The Clinton body count is a conspiracy theory centered around the belief that former U.S. President Bill Clinton and his wife, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have secretly had their political opponents murdered, often made to look like suicides, totaling as many as 50 or more listed victims. [1][2][3] The Congressional Record ...
About 250 people were killed, including 12 Americans, and more than 5,500 were injured. After intelligence linked the bombings to Osama bin Laden , a wealthy Saudi Arabian living in Afghanistan who was suspected of terrorist activity, Clinton ordered missile attacks on sites in Afghanistan and Sudan in retaliation for the bombings at the U.S ...
t. e. The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence) [ nb 1 ] was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France. [ 29 ] An important decolonization war, it was a complex conflict ...
A 2008 study found about 26,000 people killed, through combat operations, massacres, bombings and assassinations, alongside 18,000 people 'disappeared' and presumed killed in secret. This would give a death toll of roughly 44,000 people [ 25 ] out of a population of about 25,010,000 in 1990 and 31,193,917 in 2000.
Killed by the Armed Islamic Group. August 21, 1993: Kasdi Merbah, former Prime Minister of Algeria: March 10, 1994: Abdelkader Alloula, playwright Killed by two members of the Islamic Front for Armed Jihad. September 29, 1994: Cheb Hasni, singer December 3, 1994: Saïd Mekbel, journalist Assassinated with a car bomb in Aïn Bénian. September ...
List of ongoing armed conflicts. Map of ongoing armed conflicts (number of combat-related deaths in current or previous year): Major wars (10,000 or more) Wars (1,000–9,999) Minor conflicts (100–999) Skirmishes and clashes (1–99) The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.
The Oran massacre of 1962 (5–7 July 1962) was the mass killing of Pied-Noir and European expatriates living in Algeria. It took place in Oran beginning on the date of Algerian independence, and ended on 7 July 1962. Estimates of the casualties vary from a low of 95 (twenty of whom were European) [1] to 365 deaths in a report by a group of ...
By October 10, the security forces had restored a semblance of order; unofficial estimates were that more than 500 people were killed and more than 3,500 arrested. The stringent measures used to put down the riots of "Black October" engendered a ground swell of outrage. Islamists took control of some areas.