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Countries like Egypt and Algeria in the middle of the political spectrum are most vulnerable short term. Both took tepid steps toward democracy in open, multiparty elections in the 1980s, then marched backward in the 1990s. Both began the 21st century facing unprecedented social pressures from soaring populations they can't feed, educate, employ or house. Egypt, home to 67 million people (almost half the entire Arab world), produces an additional 1 million mouths to feed every eight months. In both countries, leaders have stalled on reforms. The result has been a decade of violence. More is to come...
...Russian journalists to name his heroes, Putin singled out men who had pulled their countries out of chaos and catastrophe--neither of them Yeltsin. One was Charles de Gaulle, who created a solid, centralized state in France (and quickly pulled his country out of a colonial war in Algeria, a conflict that is often compared with that in Chechnya); the other was Ludwig Erhard, architect of West Germany's postwar economic revival. Putin sees obvious parallels with France of the 1950s and Germany of the late...
...variety of legitimate charities and businesses, and is not averse to exploiting family ties: He is reported to have married off one of his daughters to Taliban leader Mullah Omar, making his relationship with Afghanistan's ruler that of a father-in-law. Even though groupings such as Algeria's Armed Islamic Group - with which the group arrested in the U.S. is believed to be aligned - long predated Bin Laden and have an entirely independent leadership structure, they are reported to have received financial and training assistance from the Saudi financier's Al Qaeda group. And because the Algerian group...
According to French experts, the suspect quickly identified as Ahmed Ressam was all too familiar in Paris. Officials say he belongs to "an extremely dangerous network of Islamic fundamentalists" intent on an "international holy war." He might connect to the Armed Islamic Group, a radical group in Algeria renowned for indiscriminate and barbarous acts of violence in their quest to turn the country into an Islamic republic. But Washington wants to know very badly whether Ressam is a free-lancing foot soldier for bin Laden. The leader of Ressam's French cell has been identified as Fateh Kamel, thirtyish...
...time, he skipped out on bail and stayed in the city for over a year under an assumed identity. He's since been linked to the 11 members of a theft ring Montreal police arrested in September, nine of whom have been released. That group has been linked to Algeria's militant Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which, among other things, is suspected of planning bombings of Paris during last year's soccer World...