Word: algerianness
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...Neill must have known that it didn't. So, as it happens, did some of his key allies, who were not in the U.S. at all but overseas. In Europe and especially in France the threat of Islamic terrorism had been particularly sharp ever since the Algerian Armed Islamic Group launched a bombing campaign in Paris in 1995. By 2000, counterterrorism experts in Europe knew the Islamic diaspora communities in Europe were seeded with cells of terrorists. And after the arrest of Ressam, European officials were convinced that terrorists would soon attack targets in the U.S. Jean-Louis Bruguiere...
...DIED. RACHID ABOU TOURAB, leader of the Armed Islamic Group (gia), which was formed after the Algerian military canceled 1992 legislative elections to prevent an Islamic fundamentalist party from winning; in Tamezguida Forest, Algiers. Upon being made leader of the antigovernment gia in 2001, Tourab was quoted as saying, "We will continue to destroy their harvests, take their goods, rape their women, decapitate them in the cities, the villages and the deserts." He died in a military sting operation. DIED. GERHARD WESSEL, 88, former official in Hitler's anti-Soviet spy operation and head of the West German intelligence agency...
...whom now live in vast desert refugee camps across the border in Algeria. But, perhaps ashamed of their politicians having abandoned the Saharawi to their fate - which was to wage a long guerrilla war against Morocco - the Spanish people have adopted them. In the refugee camps outside the Algerian town of Tindouf you see 4WD vehicles, solar panels, stoves, medical supplies, torch batteries ... all gifts from Spanish fund raisers. Several thousand Saharawi children spend their summer holidays with Spanish families. Each year a "caravan" of trucks travels through Spain collecting goods for the Saharawi: in my village this year...
There's good news for the 434 suspected members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban now being held in Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The detainees no longer have to relieve themselves into plastic bags. Bensayah Belkacem, an Algerian who is suspected of plotting to blow up the American embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, shared the news in a recent letter to his wife. Anela Kobilica told TIME last week that her husband detailed Gitmo's new sanitary arrangements. Delta's 612 cells--metal boxes about 8 ft. square--are now equipped with flushable toilets and knee-high sinks...
...come to help their Muslim brothers - by making items like boobytrapped ice-cream cones and exploding toys. Soon after returning to Bosnia last September, Sylvester helped uncover a plot to attack the U.S. and British embassies and then presided over the arrest and deportation to Guantanamo Bay of six Algerian-born suspects. "These are hard-core Islamic networks which are using Bosnia - because of its weak rule of law and porous borders - to prepare new attacks," Sylvester said. Charities, including those carrying out honorable programs, provide ideal cover, he said. A search of a Sarajevo office of the Saudi High...