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...Afghans ought to keep their eyes on the skies. The arrest of 13 alleged terrorists linked with Osama Bin Laden in Jordan Wednesday may spell trouble for Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement. The group, which included Jordanians, an Iraqi and an Algerian, was reportedly trained in Bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan, and had some nasty plans for the New Year - to attack U.S. and Israeli targets in Jordan. The revelations follow Washington's warning to the Taliban on Tuesday that they would be held responsible for any Bin Laden attacks on U.S. targets. The Taliban continues to harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bin Laden-Linked Arrests May Spell Trouble for Taliban | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

...European Parliament elections. "The name you bear does not belong to you," they declared, calling his candidacy an "insult to the life and memory of our grandfather and great-uncle." Undaunted, the late President's namesake replied that Le Pen, an ex-paratrooper accused of torturing prisoners during the Algerian war, has "the same ideas as the general," because he defends "the independence of France." The next family reunion could be quite galling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...language nearly understandable to a landsman ("A burton-tackle to the chesstree. Lead aft to a snatch block fast to the aftermost ringbolts and forward free. Look alive there!"). In the new novel Napoleon has just escaped from Elba, and the two heroes must block a huge shipment of Algerian gold intended to pay the Emperor's Muslim mercenaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Square-Rigged Saga | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

According to a U.S. government report obtained by TIME last week, "Bin Laden has associated with the leaders of numerous Islamic terrorist groups since the Afghan war. He has trained their troops, provided safe haven and financial support and probably helps them with other organizational matters... Fighters from Egyptian, Algerian, Palestinian, Filipino and Jordanian terrorist groups have trained in his camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If Osama bin Laden's So Bad, Why Is He Free? | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...therefore, be too worried that crowds are already calling for Zinedine "Zizou" Zidane, the striker who scored two of France's goals, to be elected president. That will be far more troubling to Jean-Marie Le Pen: The fact that a whole nation is cheering for the son of Algerian immigrants, not to mention the rest of a team that Le Pen described as "unrepresentative of France," could be a body blow to his Front National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victoire! France's Cup Flows Over | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

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