Medea, Algeria News

The message came from the Algerian Jihad Islamic Front - loosely associated to the banned Islamic Salvation Front that stood to win 1992's cancelled Algerian elections - and it was as was chilling as it was boastful.

Feeling identical to a certain movie classic, Daniel Julien will always have Paris, the city of his youth, and where he envisioned becoming a film director.

In March 1996, an Islamic terrorist group kidnapped seven French Trappist monks from their remote monastery in Tibhirine, Algeria.

By Rich Lowry In March 1996, an Islamic terrorist group kidnapped seven French Trappist monks from their remote monastery in Tibhirine, Algeria.

On May 30, 1996, seven severed heads were found on a road near Medea, Algeria. The murdered were men of faith, French monks who had prayed and worked among the Muslim people who lived near the Catholic monastery of Tibhirine.