Word: algerias
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...religiously observant for protection? There is no single pattern applicable to all countries, but some - Germany, France and the Netherlands, for example - are now planning to help select and train "homegrown" imams instead of relying on a supply of less acculturated clerics from nations such as Turkey and Algeria. European politicians are beginning to recognize, as the German Interior Minister said recently, that moderate Muslims are the best possible defense against religious extremism and its violent wing. "We need the cooperation of the Muslim organizations," Wolfgang Schäuble said in Berlin, "to fight against extremists from their own ranks...
...Some of the changes in the Middle East are happening gradually, but they are real. Algeria has held its first competitive presidential election, and the military remained neutral. The United Arab Emirates recently announced that half of the seats in its Federal National Council will be chosen by elections. Kuwait held elections in which women were allowed to vote and run for office for the first time. Citizens have voted in municipal elections in Saudi Arabia, in parliamentary elections in Jordan and Bahrain, and in multiparty presidential elections in Yemen and Egypt. These are important steps, and the governments should...
...praising al-Qaeda's "blessed union" with the radical Algerian Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) and singled France out as its target. Zawahiri pledged the new partnership would become "a bone in the throats of the American and French crusaders," and urged supporters to target Arab states - including Algeria - that have battled terrorism alongside Washington, London, and Paris. "Crush the pillars of the crusader alliance" Zawahiri intoned, "and strike fear in the hearts of the traitors and apostate sons of France...
...have old wooden boats, but now most boats in the Mediterranean are brand new," says Alain Fonteneau, a marine biologist for the French government-run Institute of Development Research in Montpellier. Other technologies have contributed; tuna-ranching companies fly spotter planes throughout May over prime breeding grounds off Algeria, Libya and Turkey to track shoals of tuna. (During the rest of the breeding season, the flights are banned by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas [iccat], which sets international rules.) COLLAPSING Convinced that countries are fishing the Mediterranean's stock into extinction, the wwf last year commissioned...
...Israelis can defeat every single one of their current or potential enemies, but in doing so, they simply enlarge the number of those increasingly determined to use force in resisting Israel. In the long run, Israel would then face the same dilemma that France faced in Algeria, be worn down and eventually expelled. That is the historical reality that can only be ignored at considerable strategic risk...