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...ALGERIA About-Face Assistant Secretary of State William Burns said the U.S. would supply military equipment to help the government in its fight against Islamic rebels. America gave no aid to Algeria between 1992 and 2001 because of the government's cancellation of the 1992 elections and the ensuing civil war, in which at least 100,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed. Although criticized by Washington for its human-rights record, Algeria has pledged support for the war on terror...
...DIED. JACQUES MASSU, 94, French general who played a key role in the liberation of Paris, the Indochina wars and the controversial 1957 Battle of Algiers; in Loiret, France. Condemned for its brutality, France's war in Algeria represented a dark spot in the country's history, and Massu later expressed his regret. With his rugged looks and guttural voice, Massu was a prototypical officer; he was awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor...
...Libyan and a Sudanese at three houses in the upper-crust district of Uttara in Dhaka. Bangladeshi intelligence sources said they received information from "several" foreign agencies that the men?Abu Nujaid of Libya, Sadek Al Nassami, Abu Sallam, Abu Umaiya and Abul Abbas of Yemen, Abul Ashem of Algeria and Hassan Adam of Sudan?were involved in militant arms training at a madrasah in the capital run by a Saudi-backed charity, al-Haramain. In September, Indonesia's al-Qaeda supersnitch Omar al-Faruq told the CIA that al-Haramain was the foundation used to channel bin Laden...
...forgotten foreign convicts each year, most of them of North African descent. Mesbah, like so many others in his predicament, was raised, educated and spent most of his life in France but never obtained full citizenship. If he had been set free, he would have been forcibly returned to Algeria, a country whose culture and languages are not his own. In denying Mesbah the justice of parole, the Toulouse magistrate sought to prevent the greater injustice of deportation. "In a situation as surreal as this, Aïssa's continued detention averts the worst while providing some margin for hope...
Boualem Bensaïd was standing just meters away from people whose lives he is accused of tearing asunder in a 1995 bombing campaign in the Paris Métro. He showed no feeling save contempt. The alleged Islamist terrorist from Algeria - on trial last week with co-defendant Smaïn Aït Ali Belkacem for three blasts in which eight people died and more than 200 were injured - dismissed both the charges against him and those in court who "claim to be victims of an attack." Insisting that "We are not the extremists here," Bensa...