Word: algerianness
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...Though pleased with the breakthrough, the affair is troubling for Moroccans. Terrorism and religious extremism is rare in the Kingdom, the only notable violence in recent years coming in an isolated attack on a Marrakech hotel by French Muslim militants of Algerian origin that killed two Spanish tourists in 1994. But given the ease with which the al Qaeda operatives slipped into the country, officials fear that other cells may be operating as well. Moreover, they are concerned that al Qaeda may be receiving assistance from local radicals who are sympathetic to but not part of Bin Laden's network...
...BORDER In December 1999, Algerian Ahmed Ressam was stopped trying to cross from Canada to the U.S. in an explosives-packed car, which he intended to use in a plot to blow...
...infamous Phoenix FBI memo linked Middle Eastern students at U.S. flight schools with Sheikh Omar Bakri, a radical leader based in London who was connected to "every al-Qaeda operative recently arrested or identified in Europe," an expert alleges. Last month a British judge dismissed the case against Algerian pilot Lotfi Raissi, whom the U.S. wanted to extradite in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks
GERMANY Authorities swooped down on suspected al-Qaeda sympathizers in late April, arresting members of an alleged cell in raids throughout the country. Meanwhile, the trial of five alleged terrorists has started in Frankfurt. The men, all Algerian, are charged with plotting an attack on a cathedral in the French city of Strasbourg...
...much as lurking criminals do. Aware that Le Pen's stunning presidential score required the backing of average folk usually repelled by his unsavory opinions, Dalida Hamoudi began seeking out local mainstream voters so desperate that they turned to the National Front. Hamoudi is a French citizen of Algerian extraction who is director of programming at the local station Radio Beaucaire, where she also hosts her own show. She's still looking for someone to fess up. "As a body, nearly half the voters in Beaucaire voted for Le Pen, but no one will admit or explain it," she muses...