Word: algerias
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...masses with shock and awe." Lévy claims he couldn't care less about his image, only the books. He defends French intellectuals for being right when governments were wrong: in the 1930s against fascism, in the 1950s against France's colonial presence in Algeria, in the 1970s against the Soviet Union, in the 1990s against the Serbs in Bosnia. "It's always easier to be a fascist than a democrat," he says. "Daniel Pearl was killed because he was a living refutation of his killers' view of a clash of civilizations: he was a Jew curious about Islamic...
...children in two separate school blazes. Twenty-two children died in northern Siberia and 32 died at a boarding school for the deaf in the southern republic of Dagestan. Due to chronic underfunding, many Russian schools are poorly maintained; last year there were 700 school fires. Sand Trap ALGERIA More than 1,000 soldiers and border guards joined the search for 29 Western tourists missing in the Sahara desert. Germany sent an élite antiterrorist unit to help in the hunt for the tourists, 18 of whom are German nationals, after Interior Minister Otto Schily visited Algiers. Fears grew that...
...hunt the enemy not on the battlefield but in towns and villages. The risks are twofold: an ambush like that in Mogadishu or a gradual alienation of the local population leading to unbearable political pressure to end a war--which is how the French were forced out of Algeria. In the 1950s, the British perfected antiguerrilla warfare in Malaya, Cyprus and Kenya. But that was before the invention of the video camera and the globalization of news. It was one thing to frog-march a Malay headman to jail or torch a Kenyan village in the privacy...
...hunt the enemy not on the battlefield but in towns and villages. The risks are twofold: an ambush like that in Mogadishu or a gradual alienation of the local population leading to unbearable political pressure to end a war - which is how the French were forced out of Algeria. In the 1950s, the British perfected antiguerrilla warfare in Malaya, Cyprus and Kenya. But that was before the invention of the video camera and the globalization of news. It was one thing to frog-march a Malay headman to jail or torch a Kenyan village in the privacy...
Bloody strife as a result of disputed elections is no less likely in Iraq than it was in Algeria. Though Saddam Hussein is certainly a brutal and despotic ruler worthy of intense opprobrium, President Bush needs to ask himself some critical questions about the character and temperament of any future Iraqi government...