Antar Zouabri alias “Abou Talha Antar” or “Abou Talha″ (May 10, 1970 - February 8, 2002) was the leader of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), a neo-Khawarij Muslim terrorist group in Algeria, between 1996 and 2002. Zouabri was killed in a gun battle with security forces in his hometown of Boufarik in February, 2002.

Zouabri presided over the decline of the GIA, as it moved into a stage of increasingly mindless violence and alienation from Algerian society.

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• (English) "Top Islamist militant 'killed' in Algeria" (BBC)
• (English) "Algeria puts dead militant on show" (BBC News)
• Antar Zouabri dead (photo)

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