Militants Suspected as 64 Are Massacred

Armed men killed 64 people in an attack on a rural hamlet outside Algiers, the capital, reportedly crying “God is great” at each slaying. Many of those killed had their throats slit, and 10 others were wounded, according to hospital sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, but suspicion fell on Muslim militants trying to topple the government. Two survivors said the attackers had long beards tinted red with henna and that they repeatedly cried out “Allahu akbar,” or “God is great,” the sources said. A henna-dyed beard can be a sign that a man has made the pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest sites of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.