Word: algerianness
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...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...
...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...
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...