VOL. XXXVI

NO. 32

10-MAY-1993

ALGERIA

Algerian Fundamentalists Planned To Bomb Transmed Pipeline

The official Algerian news agency APS quoted local police sources on 6 May assaying that a group of 46 Muslim fundamentalists was arrested recently forallegedly planning to sabotage the Trans Mediterranean gas pipeline thatdelivers around 12bn cu. ms. annually of natural gas from the Hassi R'Mel gasfield to Tunisia and Italy. The arrests took place at Laghouat, 100 kms. northof Hassi R'Mel. This is the...