Word: algerianness
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ALGERIA In the past four years, al-Qaeda has increasingly used terrorists from Algerian allies like the Armed Islamic Group and the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat...
...French have a long and intimate acquaintance with terror, earned in years of attacks by Algerian independence fighters. Although currently plagued by an Islamist terror threat, French authorities have made their country so inhospitable to terrorist networks that many have relocated to Germany. How did they do it? What lessons can the U.S. learn? And, perhaps most important, how many civil liberties are we willing to give up in the process...
...Osama Bin Laden's Afghanistan-based networks came via Algeria. There, the military-backed government overturned elections won by the Islamists, banned their party and drove its most extreme elements underground - where they've led a merciless war of terror against politicians and citizens alike. The most notorious Algerian terror faction, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), had been founded by men who'd fought as volunteers alongside Bin Laden in Afghanistan's anti-Soviet 'jihad.' When that war ended with the Soviet withdrawal, the men moved into France and began recruiting young thugs and exploiting their larcenous talents to raise...
...case in point: The February trial of Fateh Kamel, a 40-year-old Algerian with Canadian citizenship, provided further evidence of the discrete patterns of the terror networks. Kamel had been arrested on a charge of "association with wrong-doers in relation with a terrorist enterprise," for his involvement in the "gang of Roubaix" - a group of young men whose criminal behavior had been considered anti-social rather than political...
...various regional networks with which Kamel had been put in contact. Based on Kamel's visits to Montreal, France's top anti-terrorist cop Jean-Louis Brugiere wanted to pay a call on Ahmed Ressam - but he was discouraged by incredulous Canadian authorities who considered the Algerian expatriate no more than a petty crook. This was the same Ahmed Ressam who in 1999 was arrested en route to Seattle with a car full of explosives...