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...France Info radio, the blast occurred at 6:05 p.m. at the underground Port-Royal station, which serves the RER regional line. French Prime Minister Alain Juppe, who arrived on the scene soon after the blast, said no one has yet claimed responsibility, but suspicion immediately fell upon Algerian militants who had claimed responsibility for a string of similar bombings in 1995. Initial reports by French television said the bomb was created from a gas canister similar to those used in the 1995 attacks. The device was planted in the fourth train car, which was severely burned...
...Last December, British police raided the London residence of an Algerian named Rachid Ramda and found communications from the Armed Islamic Group, an Algerian organization suspected in seven bombings in France that killed seven and wounded 180 last year. The police also discovered records of wire-fund transfers and traced them to bin Laden's headquarters in Khartoum...
...imagine being whisked to Algiers, where you are surrounded by fugitive Black Panthers, white-bread revolutionaries and Algerian police. Then picture this: a mysterious siren comes swinging to your rescue, sweeps you off your feet and promises to deliver you from your nightmare by marrying you. For a honeymoon, she wants you to meet her folks at their estate in Afghanistan. The folks, though, turn out to be four U.S. narcs with cuffs and extradition papers...
...WILD REEDS Young love rarely seemed so tormented or rapturous as it does in Andre Techine's memory film. Political rivalries cloud a bucolic French town and Algerian war drums beat, but the main convulsions are romantic. A great date movie for teens with high sat scores and overheated hearts...
...easy to see why. For more than a week, striking transport workers, joined by postal and utilities employees, have brought the country to a virtual standstill to protest the government's new social-welfare reforms. University students are striking and marching to demand more teachers and resources. Algerian radicals have conducted a wave of terrorist bombings, and soldiers carrying machine guns patrol the Metro and train stations. The unemployment rate is 11.8%, one of the highest in the industrialized world. After only six months in office, conservative President Jacques Chirac has seen his approval rating collapse. Meanwhile--as if there...