Word: abdelaziz
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...Qaeda. In August 2003 Fizazi was sentenced to 30 years in jail for inspiring the terrorists who bombed five sites in Casablanca, including a Spanish club, in May 2003. Zougam's name surfaced during the investigation of those attacks: at one point, he shared an apartment in Madrid with Abdelaziz Benyaich, one of those arrested for his alleged connection with the bombings. Morocco last week was again looking for links between Zougam and the Casablanca attacks. He had been in Morocco in advance of the strike and returned to Spain just three weeks before it occurred. But so far, says...
...helicopter gunships struck two locations in the Gaza Strip. The violence came just before Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Conflict of Interest ALGERIA The governmental crisis deepened as the main political party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), withdrew five ministers from the coalition cabinet. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika fired FLN leader Ali Benflis as PM in May, and sacked five other FLN ministers last month. The U.N. Moves In LIBERIA Fighting between rebels and government forces in Monrovia marred the formal takeover by the U.N. of peacekeeping duties. The 3,500 members of the interim West African...
...Bejaïa. They were protesting a crackdown that followed riots - over a student's death in detention - that left at least 40 dead. The Berbers, one-third of the population, are demanding official recognition of their language, Tamazight, as well as employment and better housing. Though Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced an inquiry into the causes of the clashes, the main Berber party pulled out of the government...