@plewis

When I pointed to someone's translation error, it was dpa, the German news agency: Normally, afp is faster and more accurate, and the English translation of a German text probably based on a French...

Reading carefully, you will find very different meanings between French and German afp releases. The point is: Dealing with dubious or even real desinformation messages from Algeria, single words make the difference.

@actual reports

To show this on the actual Babors mountains operation: Last week, 15 terrorists were killed and additional 60 were encircled. That week the Army had 10,000 deployed, well, counting all security personnel in the surrounding wilayas somehow engaged in something (I would cut the number by 2 or three still taking all logistics staff into consideration).

This week 150 were killed, although daily reports speak of 3 to 15 killings and/or arrests a day. Some Algerian newspapers state that 105 were defined, the rest is unclear, some don't. We now have 11,000 troops deployed and 300 terrorists encircled...How did they enter the circle?

GSPC as culprit for everything is the same: They are known for attacks on security forces and therefore are target No.1 for the army, but if there's GSPC inside when GSPC is stated remains an open question.

Regards,
Peter

[This message has been edited by PeterM (edited 30 September 2003).]