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...returned from Algeria attests, some degree of regional cooperation already exists for al-Qaeda to build upon. Underground groups in Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Mauritania have long trafficked materiel, weapons and personnel among themselves. A January 2005 attack on a military post in Mauritania by fighters of the Algerian GSPC prompted the U.S. and certain European states to begin funding the $100 million annual Trans-Sahara Counter-Terrorism Initiative, seeking to make the enormous region less hospitable to its free-roaming jihadists. Similar initiatives have been undertaken in remote parts of north Africa and the Sahel...
...comedian Dave Chapelle wrought comic havoc by creating a fictional blind African-American who supports the Klu Klux Klan, unaware of his own blackness. But Farid Smahi is not a comedian, nor is he blind, although he does confound a stereotype: The son of Algerian parents and a longtime victim of anti-immigrant prejudice, Smahi is a candidate in France's forthcoming legislative election - for the anti-immigrant National Front of Jean-Marie...
Habiba, a first-generation French woman of Algerian parentage who prefers not to give her last name, says many minority residents in the housing projects around her Toulouse home say they'll be voting for Le Pen - in large part to thwart Sarkozy's bid for the Elysée. "Sarkozy has stigmatized very specific populations as undesirable or violence prone, often with language many of us find more pointedly racist than Le Pen's ever was," she says...
...NATO 2.0 Re Walter Isaacson's "A NATO for the Middle East" [Feb. 5]: The U.S. never stops promoting democracy, but there have been times when it has distanced itself from elected governments. The U.S. tacitly approved of the Algerian army's canceling a 1992 election won by an Islamic party, and Washington continues to be reluctant to recognize Hamas as the representative of the Palestinian people. It seems that Uncle Sam wants democracy only on his own terms. Max Desouza Toronto...
...NATO 2.0 Re Walter Isaacson's "A NATO for the Middle East" [Feb. 5]: The U.S. never stops promoting democracy, but there have been times when it has distanced itself from elected governments. The U.S. tacitly approved of the Algerian army's canceling a 1992 election won by an Islamic party, and Washington continues to be reluctant to recognize Hamas as the representative of the Palestinian people. It seems that Uncle Sam wants democracy only on his own terms. Max Desouza Toronto...