Word: algerias
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...Afghan jihad also established links between volunteers from Islamist opposition groups in countries ranging from Algeria to South Africa and the Philippines, and Bin Laden has moved - together with key leaders of Egypt's influential Islamist movement - to establish himself at the center of a kind of Islamist International. Their goal has been to link organizations spawned by local grievances all around the world into a global jihad against the U.S. and to foster cooperation among these groups...
...sergeant in the U.S. Army and a former Egyptian army major of doing intelligence work for Bin Laden's networks. And the Algerians arrested last December for allegedly smuggling explosives into the U.S. from Canada are suspected of working with Bin Laden, even though they were ostensibly supporters of Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front, which has not traditionally targeted the U.S. That suggests a growing tendency toward cooperation between distinct local groups, which considerably widens the base of potential threats against...
...Guerrouj don't dispute the praise. "He's the best I've seen by a long way," says Sebastian Coe, now Lord Coe, who along with fellow Britons Steve Ovett and Steve Cram traded the mile record between 1979 and 1985. Their reign fell to Africa in 1993, when Algeria's Noureddine Morceli sheared almost 2 sec. from Cram's eight-year-old record...
...course, none of this is doing OPEC unity any good. Of OPEC's 11 members, only the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Algeria seem ready to help the Saudis meet their half-a-billion boost - and that's more long-term good news for the gas-guzzling...
...pretense to his father's stature as statesman, although he does not lack for opinions. He criticizes Europeans for seeing North Africans as terrorists, and when asked if he is satisfied with U.S. economic support, his answer is, "Absolutely not." He is blunt about Morocco's relations with Algeria, which he cites for prolonging the dispute over the Western Sahara. The King refuses to take part in a meeting that simply becomes "a contest on who will speak the loudest." Yet he is not above praising Algeria's President for his sense of humor...