Last of opposition leaders arrested in Algeria

ALGIERS, July 8: A senior Member of the Islamic opposition was arrested Sunday when police raided a press conference he was holding in a town hall outside the Algerian capital, reports AFP. Mohammed Said, the new spokesman for the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) was the latest of the movement's leader to be hauled away by riot police since authorities began their crackdown against the FIS a week ago. Last Sunday the front's leader Abassi Madan' and his deputy, All Belhadj were arrested, and since then six other members of the movement's executive body have been detained. Police first hustled Said, an Imam, into an inner room at the Kouba Town Hall where he had been giving a news conference, amidst shouts by hundreds of FIS supporters. It was not immediately known where Said was taken. Before police broke up the gathering, Said told journalists that his home had been searched twice and that he had not returned there for