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...shot of the Algerian tycoon is featured in a picture of a different kind: a mug shot on Interpol's Wanted list, where it was placed by Algerian authorities seeking to prosecute Khalifa for alleged crimes linked to the rise and fall of his €1 billion empire. When Algeria issued an arrest warrant last month for its only home-grown international business titan, it marked the most recent slide in Khalifa's long-plummeting fortunes. Once considered a hero and source of hope for Algerian youths, Khalifa is now sought by police for suspected criminal mismanagement and money laundering...
...radicals must strike in Iraq, the newest "field of jihad." That phrase, redolent of Scripture, is actually a modern coinage to refer to a theater of operations for the Islamist insurgency. There are many: the U.S. and Europe have emerged as central fields of jihad, along with Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Kashmir, Indonesia and others. The extremists will fight and die to evict "infidel" forces from those places, including any Muslim government they consider apostate...
...protection, only the Supreme Court could stand in the way of future convictions. Safe and Sand MALI Fourteen hostages were freed after being held for up to six months in the Sahara desert by Muslim extremists. The nine Germans, four Swiss, and one Dutch national were captured in southern Algeria by the radical Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, which is allegedly linked to al-Qaeda. The German government denied claims that it had fronted a ransom of almost €5 million to secure the release of the tourists, and pledge to help track down the group's kidnappers. Space...
...being cornered by police in a mosque, authorities said. His death came a week after another suspect, Ali Abd al-Rahman as-Faqasi al-Ghamdi, gave himself up. Media Blackout ALGERIA The government banned press coverage of the release of two Islamic leaders and, in an attempt to impose a media blackout, ordered foreign journalists to leave the country. Freed are Abassi Madani, leader of the now banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), and his second-in-command, Ali Belhadj, who were given 12-year sentences in 1992. Mosque Murders PAKISTAN The army took control of the southwestern city of Quetta...
Genser said that the body which gave the opinion, the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, aims for “discretion, objectivity, impartiality and independence.” France, Algeria, Paraguay, Hungary and Iran have representatives on the working group...