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Leaders of the Algerian government tersely explained that the wholesale bloodletting last week was necessary. ``When the security forces found out [about the murder of the guards],'' said a government official, ``they had no choice but to storm the building.'' Afterward Algerian television showed footage of pistols and grenades allegedly seized from the prisoners, suggesting they may have had help from other prison officials...
...worst bombing in three years of bloody insurgency. An explosives-filled car blew up in a busy Algiers street, killing 42 people and wounding 286. No one claimed responsibility for the action, but Algerian authorities blamed Muslim extremists who have been fighting to establish an Islamic state. An estimated 30,000 people, including 80 foreigners, have been killed since the fighting between militants and government security forces began...
...worst bombing in three years of bloody insurgency. An explosives- filled car blew up in a busy Algiers street, killing 42 people and wounding 286. No one claimed responsibility for the action, but Algerian authorities blamed Muslim extremists fighting to establish an Islamic state. An estimated 30,000 people, including 80 foreigners, have been killed since the fighting between militants and government security forces began...
...Iron Fist Ending the inhumane disaster of the Air France hijacking by Algerian terrorists [Jan. 9] took courage, insight and determination by French authorities. The Armed Islamic Group is barbaric and savage; its way of achieving goals is to murder innocent and helpless people. The only way of dealing with such savagery is with an iron fist. We should not surrender an inch of ground. Khalid Al-Moosa London The Algerian imbroglio is like a jigsaw puzzle, difficult to solve. Between the government in Algeria and the militant Islamic Salvation Front there may be no lesser evil. But the most...
...Algeria in the waning days of French colonial rule, then oversaw the modernization of the Paris region during the economic boom of the 1960s; in Provins. In 1958 Charles de Gaulle picked Delouvrier to head the French administration in Algeria. For three years he sought to quell the Algerian independence movement while trying to placate disruptive French army officers who suspected that Paris was intentionally letting the colony slip away. In 1961, during a helicopter ride over Paris, De Gaulle pointed to the congested urban sprawl below and told Delouvrier to ``put some order into this garbage dump...