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 ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Algerians voted Thursday on a peace plan the government says will help the country move on from a brutal Islamic insurgency that left an estimated 150,000 dead, but which critics charge will whitewash past crimes.
The voters were called to polling stations in the oil- and gas-rich North African country, which stretches from the Mediterranean coast to the sandy wastes of the Sahara Desert and is a U.S. ally in the war on terror.
Results were scheduled to be announced Friday morning, said Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni. He said the turnout with just a few districts left to be counted was 79.49 percent.
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