Word: algerias
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...last few weeks' raids and arrests have all involved North Africans, many of them Algerians and many of them asylum seekers, could have a worrying backlash. Sekkoum warns there are up to 100 Algerian asylum seekers in Britain said by the community to have committed terrorist acts in Algeria. Already there are voices in Britain demanding a more rigorous system for removing failed asylum applicants. "We Algerians are killed in our own country and now we are seen as dangerous here," says Abu Maria, an Algerian who was at Abu Hamza's prayers last Friday. "We can't go anywhere...
...arrested 16 months ago in Leicester - the first suspects to be charged in Britain with direct links to al-Qaeda - were due again in court this month. Britons were taken aback by the notion of a broad, alleged Algerian network, since Britain, unlike France, has no colonial links with Algeria and hosts a relatively small number of its citizens among its population of 2 million Muslims. It would not be a surprise, however, to Mohammed Sekkoum, chairman of the London-based Algerian Refugee Council, who says that among the many peaceful Algerian asylum seekers to come to Britain over...
...delighted to find a passionate wine revival under way, from the deserts of North Africa to the most southerly vineyards in Africa, near Cape Agulhas at the tip of the continent. The best among their discoveries included the Chardonnay Barrique of Morocco ("the finest white wine in North Africa"), Algeria's Domaine Ouzeva 96 (cabernet sauvigon) from Medea ("an area too dangerous to visit"), the Moelleux (chenin blanc) from Réunion, and Richard Leakey's Kenyan Ol Choro Onyore Pinot Noir 2001. Having had a go at uncorking Africa, they have now set their sights on South America...
...dissident Bulgarian writer and broadcaster living in London - died after being shot in his right thigh on Waterloo Bridge with an umbrella rigged to fire a minuscule pellet containing ricin. Now the Wood Green neighborhood finds itself at the nexus of a web of terror that stretches from Algeria to Afghanistan, Paris to the Pankisi Valley, London to Los Angeles. "Even the successful actions by antiterrorism officials confirm evidence that al-Qaeda's numbers are swelling," says independent French terror expert Roland Jacquard. "Each raid that involves the arrest of several known operatives also turns up names and pseudonyms...
...there is one axiomatic truth of modern European thought, it is that empires end in tears. Indochina, Algeria, Kenya, India--all convinced Europeans of two things. First, military might was incapable of forcing foreign lands into habits that suited the imperial power. Second, imperialism soured domestic life. It fueled racism and privileged those with commercial interests in the colonies. It meant accepting a steady drip of deaths in little colonial wars and required large, expensive standing armies...