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Marlowe notes that Algeria has settled into a long and exceedingly violent war in which as many 1,000 people are killed weekly in a bloody contest between the government and the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), a savage offshoot of the FIS. The violence has spilled over into France, where the GIA is believed responsible for a series of bombings this summer and whose dramatic hijacking of an Air France flight last December fanned fears that the war could destabilize all of North Africa...
French police claimed a major victory after arresting a "pivotal" figure in the Armed Islamic group (GIA), the Algerian-based organization primarily responsible for the recent wave of terrorist bombings in France. But TIME's Bruce Crumley says any celebration of an end to the violence may be premature. "The fellow they caught, Boualen Bensaid, is a main operative within the organization," says Crumley. "He is basically a coordinator among the various 'cells' of the group. But the GIA will always have people eager to step in and fill the void. I would expect the attacks to continue until...
...Algerian terrorist group suspected of Tuesday's Paris subway bombing has threatening more terrorism unless France severs virtually all ties with the military government of Algeria, its former colony. In a statement published in the London-based Arab-language newspaper Asharq al Awsat, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) demanded that President Jacques Chirac cancel a planned meeting with Algerian President Liamine Zeroual next week, suspend all aid to Algiers, and denounce next month's Algerian presidential election. "What the militants don't understand is that Chirac is planning to read Zeroual the riot act," TIME's Bruce Crumley reports from...
...GIA also bitterly opposes French President Jacques Chirac's scheduled meeting next month with Algerian President Zamine Zeroual at the U.N. Paris bureau chief Thomas Sanction says the GIA "has vowed to continue waging 'holy war' on French soil until the French cut off their economic support of the Algiers government. Earlier this week, the GIA reportedly said it would target French journalists, just as it has targeted Algerian newsmen and intellectuals back home." Sancton reports that the GIA has also said that it will not stop the bombing campaign until French President Jacques Chirac personally converts to Islam...
Swedish authorities detained Algerian militant Abdelkrim Deneche in Stockholm as a suspect intwo bombingsthat killed seven people in Paris this summer. Investigators, lacking hard evidence, increasingly blame the fundamentalist Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which lost four members in a French assault on an airliner that the group had hijacked last December. (The GIA has vowed to "avenge our martyrs.")Paris bureau chief Thomas Sanctonreports that authorities have other indications of possible GIA involvement: the fabrication of the bombs from empty gas cannisters is identical to techniques used by GIA guerrillas in Algeria, and an underground GIA newsletter published in Sweden...