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Photo by Hubert Kriegel, of Jean-Louis Grauby, Dades Gorge, Morocco, during the 8th year of 'thetimelessride'. Ten years on the road on his 2008 Ural Sportsman.



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Algeria. Morocco border incident

Reports on the BBC indicate that there https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66678886was a recent incident that left two tourists dead and one injured whilst on holiday in Morocco.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66678886
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This happened Tuesday evening. Reports from elsewhere state that four Moroccan and French-Moroccan men were on jet skies and 'strayed' into Algerian waters at Marsa Ben M'Hidi which is just along the coast from the modern Saidia resort.

It's hard to see any military justification for killing the youths, there's nothing of interest on the Algerian side of the border.

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Given the still (unacknowledged but inside the country well known) uncomfortably high attrition rate among the Algerian armed forces from fighting insurgents, it is well known that they are trigger happy when feeling threatened. Not absolving them but understandable, fooling around on jet-skis at full speed in darkness near the Algerian border is asking for trouble...
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