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...Indeed, despite Sarkozy's acnowledgement of the often brutal French colonialization - and the chilling of relations between Paris and Algiers it had provoked in the past - it's unlikely his comments will fully satisfy Algerian critics like President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who once likened French occupation of his country to Germany's WWII occupation of France. But Sarkozy's decision to make the trip despite the ambient hostility toward him - and his surprising reversal in discussing France's colonial past - was an indication he was ready to say and do some important things while in Algeria...
...high ahead of Sarkozy's state visit to Algeria Monday, after a conservative member of the Algerian cabinet claimed the President's election to the Elysée was the work of a "Jewish lobby" in France. Far from denouncing the comment - or firing the official - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika merely told Sarkozy during a phone call Thursday that the view did "not reflect anything of Algeria's position". That chilly sign from abroad is yet another indication that Sarkozy's early honeymoon in power is definitely over - and he'll have to start emphatically putting his own "work more...
...Such security issues may pose some of the trickiest challenges for the new government. Key leaders of the UIA, such as Abdelaziz Hakim of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, have made clear they want to conduct a wholesale purge of the security forces to weed out former Baathists. But in the past year Prime Minister Allawi has quietly reversed the U.S. policy of ?de-Baathificiation,? which he viewed as dangerous mistakes. A renewed push to purge former Baathists could create further tensions that would play into the hands of the insurgency...
...Asked to respond to Allawi's overtures this week, the top candidate of the Shiite list, Abdelaziz al-Hakim told an Arab newspaper "there is no room for power sharing ... because (our) expectations indicated a sweeping victory with a large majority (voting) for the United Iraqi Alliance list." Instead, Hakim spoke of reaching out to the Kurds and drawing in minorities, including the Sunnis who for the most part appear to have stayed away from the polls. And his coalition has already begun negotiating a coalition arrangement with the Kurdish alliance, which is expected to win around 20 percent...
Political Landslide ALGERIA President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was re-elected by a huge margin, gaining 83% of the vote. Bouteflika campaigned on his record of taming the country's 12-year-long Islamic insurgency. His main rival, former Prime Minister Ali Benflis, came second with just 8%. Benflis said the poll was a sham marred by fraud...