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...Slovakia, fears about poor turnout in a similar referendum prompted parliament leaders to say that they will ratify E.U. entry regardless - a move that angered many Slovaks. FREE AT LAST ALGERIA Seventeen European tourists held hostage for three months by Islamic militants in the Western Sahara were freed by Algerian commandos after a gunfight that left one soldier and at least four kidnappers dead. Military officials said that the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) were responsible for the kidnappings. Germany's intelligence service says the group has never targeted civilians, and one of the hostages said the kidnappers...
...Recent events including the January, 2003, arrests in the United Kingdom of Algerian extremists apparently attempting to produce ricin toxin in their residences, indicate an ongoing interest among terrorists in developing improvised weapons of mass destruction," the bulletin says. It warns that ricin and other lethal agents can be easily concocted using recipes that can be found on the Internet and ingredients and equipment that can be bought from nurseries, hardware stores and mail order chemical supply houses. The bulletin cites several cases from the 1990s in which U.S. home-grown extremists and crackpots were arrested for making ricin...
...Sunday, Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN that a compound established by the Jihadist group Ansar Al Islam and captured by American and Kurdish forces last week was probably the source of the ricin seized from Algerian extremists in London earlier this year. U.S. intelligence had earlier identified the Ansar group as being especially active in attempting to develop ricin and other chemical and biological agents for use as terror weapons...
...army officer who is thought to be al-Qaeda's head of security--are older than Mohammed. Increasingly, the foot soldiers of international terrorism are too young to have taken part in the Afghan war. That doesn't mean that they are any less brutal. They include members of Algerian terror groups whose favored modus operandi in the civil strife of the 1990s was to slit the throat of every person in a village. Nor are they necessarily less tested in combat: some have fought in Bosnia and Chechnya. But the absence of a common, annealing experience in Afghanistan...
Massive bouts of civil unrest stimulated by Islamic fundamentalism forced the Algerian government to postpone its 1991 elections, originally scheduled for June of that year, until December. When Algerians finally took to the polls, they overwhelmingly elected members of the Islamic Salvation Front. Following these unexpected results, the military cancelled the elections, and a bloody civil war ensued causing an estimated 100,000 deaths from...