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...also bitterly opposes French President Jacques Chirac's scheduled meeting next month with Algerian President Zamine Zeroual at the U.N. Paris bureau chief Thomas Sanction says the GIA "has vowed to continue waging 'holy war' on French soil until the French cut off their economic support of the Algiers government. Earlier this week, the GIA reportedly said it would target French journalists, just as it has targeted Algerian newsmen and intellectuals back home." Sancton reports that the GIA has also said that it will not stop the bombing campaign until French President Jacques Chirac personally converts to Islam...
Swedish authorities detained Algerian militant Abdelkrim Deneche in Stockholm as a suspect intwo bombingsthat killed seven people in Paris this summer. Investigators, lacking hard evidence, increasingly blame the fundamentalist Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which lost four members in a French assault on an airliner that the group had hijacked last December. (The GIA has vowed to "avenge our martyrs.")Paris bureau chief Thomas Sanctonreports that authorities have other indications of possible GIA involvement: the fabrication of the bombs from empty gas cannisters is identical to techniques used by GIA guerrillas in Algeria, and an underground GIA newsletter published in Sweden...
...triggered by a timer, exploded at 5:30 p.m. as the train pulled into the Saint-Michel station along the Seine River near Notre Dame cathedral.No group has claimed responsibility for the incidentbut authorities have several theories, reports TIME's William Rademaekers. "The French have many enemies," he explains. Algerian militants, Bosnian Serbs and extremist antinuclear groups -- all have motives. The Algerian Armed Islamic Group (AIG) has a longstanding threat of retaliation after the French stormed an airplane hijacked by four of its members in December, 1994. All four were slain in the raid. Then again, Bosnian Serbs could...
...Algerian war stumbles blindly to a close, its fatal chaos is felt back home, where tragedy mixes with the melodrama that informs a teenager's every waking moment. Brains, groins, hearts-all work overtime in Francois, MiIte and their friends; they face their glandular convulsions with a wonderful seriousness. Swathing them in the sunlight and streams of Provence, Tachina treats all the kids (and their teachers) with affection and respect. He knows that for these handsome idealists, love is as important as sex. They are defining their blossoming identities by discovering the people they can't live without...
WOULD THE WEST ALLOW THIS CARNAGE to go on if Algeria were not a Muslim country? Algerians wonder why there was not a word of protest at the rape of democratic process in that country. In fact the West seems scared by the rise of Islamic nationalism, and could not accept the victory of the Islamic Salvation Front in the Algerian elections. If the international community wants cordial relations with the inhabitants of the region stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian oceans, then it has to respect the aspirations of the Muslim masses...