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...coast of Oxnard, Calif., but opposition is mounting. Activists raise concerns about pollution and potential harm to wildlife from such a large industrial operation. A spokeswoman for BHP says the LNG industry has never had a major spill (although an explosion occurred at an LNG production plant in Algeria...
...EXTRADITED. RACHID RAMDA, 35, Algerian terrorist suspect; from Britain to France. Allegedly a member of Algeria's outlawed Armed Islamic Group, Ramda was arrested in London in November 1995 after fleeing French charges related to that year's bombing of the Paris Metro, in which eight people died...
...open-plan management and quick response to new ideas, he says, Spanair can thrive in a tough market: "We have a cost structure comparable to [low-cost pioneer] EasyJet," steady profits and room to grow. Passenger numbers have jumped almost 20% this year. Spanair plans to expand to Algeria, Morocco and Switzerland in 2006. And it's aiming to be No. 1 in the Spain-Scandinavia market within a year. "We're the underdog," but that's a great thing to be, Nygaard says...
French jihad? Algeria's revenge? Intifada-sur-Seine? Forget all that. The riots currently rocking France have far more in common with the violence that shook Watts, Cleveland, and Harlem in the mid-1960s than they do with the Islamist extremism behind 9/11 or the attacks in Madrid and London. The driving forces are socio-economic injustice and racial segregation, not a thirst for infidel blood on the march to a global Caliphate. The infuriated youths burning cars and stoning police in the dismal suburbs of Paris, Toulouse, Lille, Rennes and beyond are demanding a piece of France's modern...
...circle of fire marked where a trash container had been set alight to provoke a police patrol. "People mix it up with the police every day around here," says Spion, 19, who is of Moroccan origin. But this is different, says his friend Benou, whose parents came from Algeria. "This is May 1968--but in the banlieues...