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...million). Chirac, the political survivor, doesn't talk about the agents of anti-Semitism in France. "France is supposed to be one big happy family," says Emmanuel Weintraub, spokesman for the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF). "When Chirac beat Le Pen, there were lots of Algerian and Moroccan flags flying in the crowd at Place de la République. That's his constituency and he doesn't want to hurt their feelings." In a televised debate last week, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy rejected any link between Israel and anti-Semitic attacks in France. "Anyone...
...photos that have accompanied scores of magazine and newspaper articles on Rafik Abdelmoumèn Khalifa's spectacular rise as an international financier and jet-setter who hung out with celebrities like Bono, Pamela Anderson, Sting and Gérard Depardieu. But this particular shot of the Algerian tycoon is featured in a picture of a different kind: a mug shot on Interpol's Wanted list, where it was placed by Algerian authorities seeking to prosecute Khalifa for alleged crimes linked to the rise and fall of his €1 billion empire. When Algeria issued an arrest warrant last month...
...luxurious London hotel room he moved into in May, when his crumbling businesses inspired him to leave his Paris offices for the U.K. - which conveniently has no extradition accords with Algeria. He broke his silence briefly, to call charges of irresponsible and illegal management "absolutely false." Meanwhile, average Algerians are blaming the boyish financier, who is known as "Moumen," for causing the loss of over 20,000 Khalifa Group jobs; hundreds of thousands of other Algerians will never get back their Khalifa bank accounts. "Moumen's growing success, fame and fortune was so amazing, it gave many Algerians hope that...
...Afghanistan until February 2003, when he was flown to Guantánamo. His family believes he was a victim of mistaken identity. Like all the estimated 680 inmates from 42 countries, Abbasi and Begg have not been charged and are not permitted lawyers. One captive, Mustafa Idr, an Algerian-born Bosnian citizen, wrote his wife via the Red Cross on Sept. 13: "I have been at this place day by day without knowing why I am here, how long I am going to stay, and where I am going to go after this. I sit, eat, sleep and do nothing...
...case in Bosnia highlights the damage to America's image. In October 2001, U.S. troops working with Bosnian police arrested six Algerian-born men - one of whom was Mustafa Idr - on suspicion of plotting to attack the U.S. and U.K. embassies in Sarajevo. Five had become Bosnian citizens during or shortly after fighting in the Balkan wars in the mid-1990s. The evidence at the time was said to comprise mobile-phone conversations purportedly made between Bensayah Belkacem, the apparent leader of the group, and top al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah in Afghanistan shortly after Sept. 11. The Bosnian Supreme...