ALGERIA KILLS LEADING ISLAMIC INSURGENT

CAIRO [MENL] -- Algeria has reported the first significant achievement inits campaign to target Islamic insurgency leaders. Algerian security sources said the military killed a leader of theSalafist Brigade for Combat and Call. The group, led by Hassan Khatib, isregarded as the most powerful of the insurgency groups in Algeria and wassaid to have killed 49 soldiers in two ambushes a month ago.