Abdelbaki Sahraoui co-founded Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front and was assassinated in Paris in 1995. The 2010 opening said he "preached in favor of armed struggle - jihad - against the Algerian government," and that he was killed by the Armed Islamic Group after opposing extending the jihad to France. Today's opening says only that he co-founded the FIS, though jihad survives twice in the body. A reader today does not learn that he preached violent jihad or how and why he was killed.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01. “jihad” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 2.
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The opening as it read in 2010
Abdelbaki Sahraoui ( ) was a co-founder of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in Algeria . He was born in 1910 in Constantine, Algeria . In 1926, he joined the circle of Sheikh Mubarak el-Mili . Five years later, he was conscripted by the French army, where he spent two years. He then moved to Algiers , where he was involved with the Muslim Scholars' Society. In 1990, he helped found the FIS; after the Algerian Civil War began, he fled to Paris , from which he preached in favor of armed struggle - jihad - against the Algerian government. However, he opposed the extension of the jihad to France , and was assassinated because of this in Paris, on July 11, 1995, by the Armed Islamic Group , the GIA . His death was followed by a series of bombings in France . "Rachid Ramda jugé pour l'ultime procès des attentats de 1995," in Libération , October 1, 2007 read on-line icon1
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The opening as it stood in 2005
Abdelbaki Sahraoui was a co-founder of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in Algeria . He was born in 1910 in Constantine, Algeria . In 1926 , he joined the circle of Sheikh Mubarak el-Mili . Five years later, he was conscripted by the French army, where he spent two years. He then moved to Algiers , where he was involved with the Muslim Scholars' Society. In 1990, he helped found the FIS; after the Algerian Civil War began, he fled to Paris , from which he preached in favor of armed struggle - jihad - against the Algerian government. He was assassinated in Paris on July 11 by the Armed Islamic Group , the GIA (although some question the authenticity of their statement claiming credit for this.)
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Abdelbaki Sahraoui ( ) was a co-founder of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in Algeria . He was born in 1910 in Constantine, Algeria . In 1926, he joined the circle of Sheikh Mubarak el-Mili . Five years later, he was conscripted by the French army, where he spent two years. He then moved to Algiers , where he was involved with the Muslim Scholars' Society. In 1990, he helped found the FIS; after the Algerian Civil War began, he fled to Paris , from which he preached in favor of armed struggle - jihad - against the Algerian government. However, he opposed the extension of the jihad to France, and was assassinated because of this in Paris, on 11 July 1995, by the Armed Islamic Group . His death was followed by a series of bombings in France . "Rachid Ramda jugé pour l'ultime procès des attentats de 1995," in Libération , October 1, 2007 read on-line icon
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Abdelbaki Sahraoui ( ) was a co-founder of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in Algeria . He was born in 1910 in Constantine, Algeria . In 1926, he joined the circle of Sheikh Mubarak el-Mili . Five years later, he was conscripted by the French army, where he spent two years. He then moved to Algiers , where he was involved with the Muslim Scholars' Society. In 1990, he helped found the FIS; after the Algerian Civil War began, he fled to Paris , from which he preached in favor of armed struggle— jihad —against the Algerian government. However, he opposed the extension of the jihad to France, and was assassinated because of this in Paris, on 11 July 1995, by the Armed Islamic Group . His death was followed by a series of bombings in France . "Rachid Ramda jugé pour l'ultime procès des attentats de 1995," in Libération , October 1, 2007 read on-line (in French)
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The opening as it stood in 2025 8 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Abdelbaki Sahraoui ( Arabic : عبد الباقي صحرواي ) (August 25 1910 - July 11 1995) was a co-founder of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) in Algeria .
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“jihad” appeared 2 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 2. Read the current article and compare.
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It left the opening. It did not leave the article. Wikipedia moved it down the page, where a reader arriving from a search result will not reach it.
“jihad” now appears 2× under Biography, 33% of the way down the article
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