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...goes back to the 1980s when the men were imprisoned together. Legend has it that Belhadj promised to cut Sadi's throat if the Islamists ever came to power. "Fundamentalism is like death," Sadi told supporters. "You try it only once." At Sadi's instigation, the government has allowed Algerian peasants to establish village "self-defense committees" to fight armed Islamists...
...government continues to ignore reports of systematic torture and summary execution of Islamists by the security forces. Former Cabinet member Leila Aslawi, whose husband was stabbed to death a year ago by guerrillas, campaigned for Zeroual. She is enraged by Western "complacency" toward Algerian fundamentalists: "This state is fighting terrorism. You don't do that with the declaration of human rights in one hand and the constitution in the other. You don't fight terrorism with kid gloves...
...reservists called up for the elections go home and the noisy celebrations are over, Algeria will begin burning once again. Until now, those who hold power have refused to share responsibility for the country's descent into chaos, or to acknowledge the deep roots of Islamic fundamentalism in Algerian society. And if there is to be peace in Algeria, secularists and Islamists will have to bridge the chasm that lies between them. The election seems unlikely to provide such a solution and, tragically, may prove little more than a momentary pause in a long and bloody...
...ALGERIAN DECLARES VICTORY...
Claiming to have captured 61.3 percent of the vote, General Liamine Zeroual announced Friday that he was the big winner in the Algerian president election, saying that the vote constituted a victory for democracy. Others aren't so sure. The fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front, the major opposition to the government, was barred from the elections, and some charge the election results were rigged. "Algerian diplomats admit openly that the purpose of the election is to give legitimacy to the government," says TIME's Lara Marlowe. "But how much credibility can the election have when the main opposition is not allowed...