Word: algerias
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...camera, and depicted an escalating exchange in Italian ending with Materazzi calling Zidane a "(expletive) Muslim, dirty terrorist". Other media analyses relied on lip-readers scrutinizing video images, and came away with interpretations ranging from comments suggesting Zidane's father was a traitor to his native Algeria to insults of Zidane's mother and accusations that his sister is a member of the oldest profession on earth...
...years in prison for aiding the Algerian terrorists behind a 1995 bombing campaign of the Paris subway and other targets that left eight dead and over 150 injured; in Paris. Algerian-born Ramda, who was extradited from Britain in December, was convicted of financing and providing logistical support to Algeria's Armed Islamic Group. He will now face murder charges for his role in the attacks. If found guilty, Ramda could be sentenced to life in jail...
Since France's elite counterterrorism forces uprooted networks of Algeria's extremist Armed Islamic Group (gia) who were responsible for the deadly bombing campaign that rocked Paris in the mid-'90s, they've earned added respect by successfully thwarting a score or more of major plots. Lately, however, some of the French force's luster has tarnished as allegations of torturing and framing suspects have arisen. Last week, an appeals court acquitted two Corsican nationalists of contracting the 1998 assassination of Claude Erignac, former prefect of Corsica and the state's highest representative on the island. Though upholding their conviction...
...spot on Slovenia's team - but didn't make that, either. The Olympic dream fuels the nation-hopping. Alpine skier Christelle Douibi and cross-country skier Noureddine Bentoumi both grew up in the Grenoble area as children of Algerian fathers. At Torino, they are the whole team competing for Algeria. "To be honest, I knew I would have the opportunity to be in the Games, whereas with the kind of competition that exists in France, I wouldn't," says Douibi, 20. Bentoumi, 34, realized he could compete for Algeria a few years ago after meeting a Hungarian athlete living...
...governments look for a way out and protesters fill the streets, Muslim preachers can hardly be restrained from calling the faithful to action. "It is the duty of all Muslims to wake up from their deep sleep and defend their religion," declared an imam broadcasting a sermon live on Algeria's national television network last week. If the scenes in Damascus and Beirut are anything to go by, more confrontation is still to come...