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...capital has been saturated with security forces to ensure that Algeria's sham elections come off smoothly," TIME's Lara Marlowe reports, where armed guards are patrolling the streets hoping to ensure that presidential polling goes off without a hitch on today. It won't be easy. "Algerian diplomats admit openly that the purpose of the election is to give legitimacy to the government," says Marlowe. "But how much credibility can the poll have when the main opposition, the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) is not allowed to participate and its leaders are in prison? The election already resembles...
...capital has been saturated with security forces to ensure that Algeria's sham elections come off smoothly," TIME's Lara Marlowe reports, where armed guards are patrolling the streets hoping to ensure that presidential polling goes off without a hitch on Thursday. It won't be easy. "Algerian diplomats admit openly that the purpose of the election is to give legitimacy to the government," says Marlowe. "But how much credibility can the poll have when the main opposition, the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) is not allowed to participate and its leaders are in prison? The election already resembles...
French police claimed a major victory after arresting a "pivotal" figure in the Armed Islamic group (GIA), the Algerian-based organization primarily responsible for the recent wave of terrorist bombings in France. But TIME's Bruce Crumley says any celebration of an end to the violence may be premature. "The fellow they caught, Boualen Bensaid, is a main operative within the organization," says Crumley. "He is basically a coordinator among the various 'cells' of the group. But the GIA will always have people eager to step in and fill the void. I would expect the attacks to continue until...
...prevent another terrorist attack, in this case another homemade bomb that exploded on a commuter train beneath Paris, wounding 29 people. The blast was the eighth recent bombing or attempted bombing that authorities have blamed on the secretive Armed Islamic Group, which claims that France supports the military-backed Algerian regime the group is trying to overthrow...
...Algerian terrorist group suspected of Tuesday's Paris subway bombing has threatening more terrorism unless France severs virtually all ties with the military government of Algeria, its former colony. In a statement published in the London-based Arab-language newspaper Asharq al Awsat, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) demanded that President Jacques Chirac cancel a planned meeting with Algerian President Liamine Zeroual next week, suspend all aid to Algiers, and denounce next month's Algerian presidential election. "What the militants don't understand is that Chirac is planning to read Zeroual the riot act," TIME's Bruce Crumley reports from...