Word: algerias
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...mission approved by France's Catholic bishops, he has traveled thousands of miles through remote Ukrainian villages, his priest's collar helping to put locals at ease in places where foreigners are rarely seen. Desbois taught mathematics in West Africa before becoming a priest, and later worked in Algeria; he also studied Hebrew in Jerusalem, and he serves as an advisor to the Vatican on Jewish affairs. But none of that prepared him for his charged work in Ukraine's villages, where the bottled-up emotions of aging Ukrainians pour out as they describe the executions they saw, and share...
...misses at best. Similarly, Taliban extremists have tried and failed to assassinate Western-backed President Hamid Karzai in neighboring Afghanistan. In 2004, three extremists were arrested in Germany on accusations they were planning to assassinate Iraq's visiting Prime Minister, Ayad Allawi. And just last September, a member of Algeria's al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb killed 22 people in a suicide bombing that had as its primary target Algerian President Abdulaziz Bouteflika. The Algerian President survived...
...prevent this feared transfer of terror across the Mediterranean, French officials say they need - and usually get - help from Algeria. Yet concerns that the Algerian regime may overestimate its successes fighting terrorist organizations troubles some French authorities. For example, Algerian officials and commentators indicated as recently as this year that military offensives and amnesty programs have decimated AQIM ranks, only to be quickly bloodied anew by spectacular attacks. Some critics also contend that underestimated official death counts indicate the regime may prefer to deny the extent of civilian suffering rather than acknowledge AQIM's deadly effectiveness. Within 24 hours...
...strikes have thus far been limited to Algerian soil, the group claiming responsibility for the strikes - al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) - has signaled its desire to internationalize its jihad. With Tuesday's violence marking the first time AQIM has struck foreign targets in a major attack in Algeria, security officials fear it signals a significant broadening of the group's terror action that will inevitably reach Europe itself...
...been working on instruction of AQIM's earlier incarnation, Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. "That doesn't mean there might not be French cells plotting violence that we may have missed," says one investigator. "But when you compare what's happened lately in France and Algeria, Algerian extremists seem the far more likely source of terror on either continent in the short...