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ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - The former head of an Algerian militant group that played a key role in the country's bloody insurgency announced plans Saturday to form a new political party.
Madani Mezrag, who was commander of the now-dissolved Islamic Salvation Army in the 1990s, said in a statement that he would mobilize supporters from around the country for a national congress to launch the new party.
The Islamic Salvation Army, known as the AIS, had a political wing called the Islamic Salvation Front that was poised to win parliamentary elections in 1992. But the army canceled the vote and an ensuing insurgency has left as many as 150,000 dead.
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