Rabah Kebir ( ar, رابح كبير) was an

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n islamic leader, and a former leader of the

Islamic Salvation Front The Islamic Salvation Front ( ar, الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ, al-Jabhah al-Islāmiyah lil-Inqādh; french: Front Islamique du Salut, FIS) was an Islamist political party in Algeria. The party had two major leaders representi ...

(FIS), an islamic Algerian

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which won the elections in the nineties. The dissolution of the FIS by military

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after its electoral victories in 1991-92 triggered the Algerian Civil War, in which the FIS-affiliated

Islamic Salvation Army The Islamic Salvation Front ( ar, الجبهة الإسلامية للإنقاذ, al-Jabhah al-Islāmiyah lil-Inqādh; french: Front Islamique du Salut, FIS) was an Islamist political party in Algeria. The party had two major leaders representi ...

(AIS) and other

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s fought the military-dominated government. Kebir spent most of the war years in exile in Germany, acting as a main figure in the party's political leadership. In 1995, Kebir and

Anwar Haddam Anwar Haddam ( ar, أنور هدام) was a leader of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), an Islamist party in Algeria, and was elected to parliament on a FIS ticket in 1991 - Algeria's first multiparty elections. The dissolution of the FIS by milit ...

both signed the

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- a joint document by

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parties demanding a reinstatement of

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in Algeria - as representatives of FIS. In 2006, Rabeh Kebir returned to Algeria upon being amnestied by the state, something which was given widespread coverage in the Algerian press, and was viewed by many as a milestone in the

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efforts to bring the civil war to a definitive end. He remains formally banned from political activities, but has held

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s declaring his intentions to return to politics despite this.

References

Living people Islamic Salvation Front politicians Algerian exiles Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Algerian people {{Algeria-politician-stub