Word: algerianness
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...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...
...support and acquiescence, the Bush administration has now turned to UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to come up with a plan - and President Bush has made clear that he'll pretty much support whatever Brahimi decides. But as much as the administration is now depending on the efforts of the Algerian diplomat who reported back to the UN Security Council Tuesday, Brahimi is in no sense a servant of the U.S. His views on the situation in Iraq are at odds with the U.S. on the question of using force at Fallujah and Najaf, and he angered Israel and its supporters...
Bojinka was only one of several hints of potential attacks involving aircraft, yet U.S. intelligence did not give the idea serious consideration. Others included an attempt by Algerian terrorists to crash a hijacked plane into the Eiffel Tower in 1994. A foreign intelligence service told U.S. agents in 1998 of al-Qaeda plans to hijack a plane and bargain for the release of blind cleric Omar Abdel Rahman, who was in a U.S. prison for his role in the first World Trade Center attack...
...thwart terrorism. One is to deport foreign militants following arrests for relatively minor offenses. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is thinking about extending the same approach to newly naturalized suspects, based on a year-long requirement of "crime-free" conduct after becoming French. Suspected Beghal operative Kamel Daoudi, originally Algerian, is a candidate: if convicted, he could serve his sentence, be stripped of his French citizenship and deported back to Algeria - which has been known to torture jihadists. In Italy, following tougher laws passed in 2001, the number of Islamic terrorists arrested has climbed from...