Word: algerian
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...year 1784 saw the American brig Betsey, with her crew of 10, captured by a Moroccan corsair while sailing with a cargo of salt from Spain to Philadelphia. Soon after, Algerian pirates grabbed the Dauphin and the Maria on the high seas of the Atlantic and took their crews captive. The situation was becoming worse because the British fleet had withdrawn protection of American vessels after the former colony declared its independence, and the U.S. had no navy of its own. Secretary of State John Jay decided to do what the European powers did and pay tribute to the Barbary...
...Egypt to ease up. And reform, like peace, will have to wait - By Matt Rees and Jamil Hamad A Safe Catch? FRANCE It was "a beautiful operation for us as well as for international counterterrorism." That's how one French security official described last week's extradition of Algerian Saïd Arif from Syria. French authorities tell TIME they believe Arif, 38, was an important member of al-Qaeda's European operation. The former Algerian army lieutenant "is a survivor of uprooted al-Qaeda networks in Europe. His arrest and extradition from Syria is a very big blow...
...known as the Roubaix gang. For now, four of the men-two from Bangladesh, one from Mali and another from India-are being held only on immigration violations, while another Bangladeshi has been charged with falsifying official documents. But the police are investigating whether Dumont, a French national of Algerian descent who lived in Japan on and off in 2002 and 2003, was setting up a terrorist ring in the country. The local press have reported that Dumont, who worked as a used-car exporter, opened a postal savings account in July 2002 and deposited or withdrew several thousands...
...Tarantino Jury did give a prize to a politically correct road movie, but not this one. Instead, the Mise-en-Scene (Best Director) award went to Tony Gatlif, the Algerian-born French auteur of ?Exiles,? about the southbound trip two young people take from France through Spain to return to their parents? birthplace in Algeria. You could canvass critics from Sweden to the Sahara and not find one who liked the movie - but that?s juries...
Ahmed Zaoui knows just how hard the country can be. In December 2002, the fugitive Algerian politician stepped off a plane from Malaysia, asked for asylum - and was hustled, under heavy police guard, into a maximum-security jail. Zaoui, a member of his country's banned Islamic Salvation Front party, had been convicted by Algerian, Belgian and French courts of assisting or associating with terrorists. Declaring those rulings "unsafe," New Zealand's Refugee Status Appeals Authority granted Zaoui asylum last August. But the government insisted that his "continued presence in New Zealand constitutes a threat to national security...