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There's more. To an extent that few Americans understand, modern Europeans have a deep sense of guilt about their colonial adventures. (Indeed, they have much to feel guilty about.) Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, a chilling catalog of French atrocities in Algeria and a cry to listen to those denied a voice, is one of the post-1945 era's most influential European books. All this has had an effect. It was easy for Europeans to be on the side of Israel when, as in 1967 and 1973, it seemed to be fighting a defensive...
...ALGERIA Surprise Attack As government troops carried out a sweep for insurgents in mountainous country in the northwestern Saida region, they were ambushed by the very people they were searching for. In the most lethal attack this year of the 10-year insurgency that has claimed more than 120,000 lives, 20 soldiers were left dead as well as one member of a civilian self-defense group. The assailants were thought to be members of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), avenging the recent arrest of 150 suspected gspc supporters...
...designed protection strategies in some of the most dangerous parts of the world, from Iraq to Colombia to Nigeria. Operating in countries where American intelligence was often weak, Elder had to rely on his own contacts. In the mid-1990s, while overseeing construction of an oil pipeline in northern Algeria, Elder learned from local sources of a series of killings committed by the rebel Groupe Islamique Armee. This intelligence scoop--the government didn't announce the killings for several days--allowed Elder to steer employees safely away from the danger zones and keep the project on schedule. Indeed, throughout...
...Supreme Court justices would find torture constitutional in certain circumstances. No forceful denials by any justice have been heard publicly. Bruce Hoffman, an analyst with the Rand Corporation, asks the torture question aloud in the January edition of the Atlantic Monthly, citing a movie about French tactics in Algeria and tactics used in Sri Lanka. President George W. Bush has formulated a new military tribunal to try terrorists that winks at due process. This measure is said to be very necessary to keep the terrorists from “getting at” judges and juries...
...doesn't Mbeki lower the boom on his dictatorial northern counterpart? The answer probably lies in Mbeki's greater plan for African solidarity, as espoused in the New Partnership for Africa's Development drawn up by him and other African leaders from Nigeria, Senegal, Eygpt and Algeria. NEPAD involves a "peer review" process to censure, possibly even intervene in, states that do not practice good governance. But Mbeki is not prepared to take such action unilaterally...