Word: algerias
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Swept away as we are by recent events in Haiti and Cuba, we risk forgetting that American foreign policy is daily being put to test around the world. Algeria leaps to mind as an example of a less favored foreign policy desideratum whose reverberations will nonetheless be heard throughout the Middle East and beyond for many years to come...
...military regime, anticipating a victory by the Islamic Salvation Front in the country's first freely-held elections, canceled the vote. The Front is an umbrella organization of Islamists, or Islamic fundamentalists, who believe that normative religious law should have a greater say in determining the political culture of Algeria...
...Moukharbel, Carlos' Lebanese adjutant. Moukharbel then led three unarmed policemen to a party where Carlos sat strumming a guitar. After chatting briefly, Carlos excused himself to go to the bathroom. He returned with a gun, killed Moukharbel and two of the police, wounding the third. Then he fled to Algeria...
...himself to his captives with the words, "I am the famous Carlos. You will have heard of me." He tortured one hostage by shooting him in the hand, knee and stomach before finishing him off. Midway through the operation, Carlos canceled plans to assassinate two of the ministers when Algeria brokered a monetary deal in exchange for their lives. Haddad was furious, and their relationship cooled...
Eisenhower, now a lieutenant general based in London, was chosen to command Operation Torch, which went ashore in Morocco and Algeria in November 1942. His forces then moved into Tunisia to link up with Montgomery's Eighth Army, freeing all North Africa from the Axis. By the time the U.S. persuaded Churchill to undertake a Normandy attack, Eisenhower had commanded two more seaborne invasions during 1943: Sicily and mainland Italy. They were sideshows in his eyes -- and the Italian campaign quickly bogged down into a bloody mile-by-mile struggle up the peninsula -- but they taught him a great deal...