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...building shook like a ship. I sheltered with my daughters in a doorframe. That's why we're still alive." FATMA FERHANI, resident of the town of Rouiba, Algeria, near the epicenter of an earthquake that killed more than...
...terrorist target in an audiotape attributed to Ayman al-Zawahiri. The al-Qaeda No. 2 was railing against the war in Iraq, which Norway actually opposed. Most likely, it was a case of fuzzy geography. "Of course he means Denmark," a Danish terrorism expert told one reporter. Shaken Country ALGERIA Angry earthquake survivors criticized the government for what they said were inadequate rescue efforts and blamed shoddy construction work for the high death toll. The devastating quake killed around 1,900 people and injured at least 7,000. The rescue of a 21-year-old man from a wrecked beach...
...poor turnout for the referendum, but after 64% of the population cast their ballots, the celebrations began. And in Slovakia, fears about poor turnout in a similar referendum prompted parliament leaders to say that they will ratify E.U. entry regardless - a move that angered many Slovaks. FREE AT LAST ALGERIA Seventeen European tourists held hostage for three months by Islamic militants in the Western Sahara were freed by Algerian commandos after a gunfight that left one soldier and at least four kidnappers dead. Military officials said that the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) were responsible for the kidnappings...
...already finding themselves in situations miserably familiar to those of the old imperial powers. Take the deaths last week in Fallujah. Young soldiers firing on demonstrators among whom agents provocateurs with weapons may (or may not) have been hiding--we've seen this movie before, from India to Algeria to Ireland. Many of the Administration's statements on Iraq reveal a cast of mind last exercised by those with ostrich-feather plumes on their hats. Iraqis, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said recently, will "figure out a way to manage their affairs" that will be "consistent with the principles that...
...already finding themselves in situations miserably familiar to those of the old imperial powers. Take the deaths last week in Fallujah. Young soldiers firing on demonstrators among whom agents provocateurs with weapons may (or may not) have been hiding - we've seen this movie before, from India to Algeria to Ireland. Many of the Administration's statements on Iraq reveal a cast of mind last exercised by those with ostrich-feather plumes on their hats. Iraqis, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said recently, will "figure out a way to manage their affairs" that will be "consistent with the principles that...