Abu Kheithama "I won...t come back unless I am died"

"I wanted to celebrate his funeral and bury him near the grave of his father." With these words, we were received by Fatima, mother of Ben Titraoui Omar alias "Abu Yahia Kheithama" the emir of Katibat El Feth, eliminated last Wednesday night. In the town of Corso, 2 km from Boumerdès, in the simple dwellings of Kedraoui neighbourhood lives the family of the terrorist. It wasn...t so difficult for us to find the house where Ben Titraoui lived.

• We met the mother of Abu Kheithama who received us in the lounge and began to talk about his sad life without even knowing who we were.
  
  She let out a sigh when we asked her about his son. She said she had gone to see him in the morgue. He was the youngest of her five sons and the one she loved most. "Why they denied me the right to bury him near his father? " She asks. "I've lost him for 16 years; he was only 16 years old. I've always wanted to make his funerals."
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  We want to know more about her son; she said "My son Omar, the youngest of my five sons studied at the Corso middle school. Towards the end of 1993, I lost my blind husband. At the beginning, my eldest son, Youcef, had joined the dissolved Fis party then terrorist groups. It was the beginning of torment for the family. Omar had thought of emigration, but as he was a minor he couldn’t. After a time, he disappeared. Since 93, I didn’t see him until these days in the morgue."
  
  His brother, a repentant who has benefited from the law on civil concord.
  
  Aïssa, Omar’s brother entered in the room. He is a repentant, seven years older than Omar. He says "I joined the terrorist groups in 1993. Some newspapers had announced my death. Since the beginning of the implementation of the law on civil concord, I decided to return back. I was among the first repent."
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  Here the mother told us she had not assisted to the wedding of her son Aïssa. She told us "When he came back in 2000, he entered home with a wife and two children. He told me this is my wife and these are my sons, so we understood that he was married while he was in the mountain." "I have not seen my son for 16 years and the last contact with him was in 2000 when his brothers asked him come back and benefit from the civil concord. He had sworn that he wouldn’t return unless dead"
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  His sister told us: "He wanted to marry the daughter of the Imam ... which girl would agree to marry him since he is a wanted terrorist?"
  
  We left the family of Abu Kheithama which, despite the loss of a son, still clings to the hope that her children have a better future"
  
  Zahia T.