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Algerians, as a nationality, do not figure prominently on the British ethnic landscape. As a former colony of France, Algeria's historical links lie on the other side of the Channel. Its citizens form only a small percentage of Britain's 2 million Muslims. But for some reason, Algerian Islamic extremists turn up again and again as British security services widen their investigations into the al-Qaeda terror organization...
...Long before September 11, Algerian novelist, poet and journalist Tahar Djaout learned how fearsome religious fanaticism could be. On May 26, 1993, Djaout was shot by assassins outside of his home in Bainem, Algeria. His death was attributed to the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). Dajout's death was the first in a series of murders by the FIS that targeted high-profile intellectuals. "The Last Summer of Reason," a haunting novel in French, was found in Djaout's papers. It is the story of Boualem Yekker, a bookstore owner whose country is being overtaken by fundamentalists. The book has just...
...book. "We're really in a season of fundamentalist insanity in many religions," Soyinka told us. "There's a real escalation of intolerance, of the will to constrict the mind. Many people outside have been unaware of the enormity of the killings that have been taking place in Algeria, for instance, in the name of religious purity. So a book like Djaout's, which is a very pointed allegory, is something that I think is required at this moment to make people understand that this issue goes beyond the sensational reports of a massacre here, a murder here, an atrocity...
...when Albanian rebels attacked police posts along the Kosovo border. But a splinter group of rebels calling themselves the Albanian National Army remained in control of several villages and warned security forces not to enter. The group claimed responsibility for the killing of three policemen earlier in the week. ALGERIA Disastrous Toll Security forces moved in to protect government buildings in Algiers as furious protesters blamed authorities for the high death toll in the country?s worst flood for 40 years. More than 850 people were feared killed, and the Red Cross launched an appeal for $1.2 million to help...
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