EYE ON ALGERIA: Still more violence, largely unreported beyond little wire stories like this one. But this paragraph is the big news:

More than 120,000 people have been killed in Algeria’s Islamic insurgency, which erupted in 1992 when the army canceled elections that a fundamentalist party was poised to win.

Amazingly, this may be true — at least I found this story saying that it’s more than 100,000, and this 1999 report saying that it was between 65-100,000. Note that as of July, 2001 the estimated Algerian population was just under 32 million. Proportionally, then, we’re talking about the equivalent of nearly a million deaths in a country the size of the United States.