French Families Leave Algeria on Security Worries

NY Times ^ | October 6, 2007

[DeaconBenjamin]

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Families of French nationals working for Michelin in Algeria have been repatriated on fears of a security deterioration in the former French colony, a senior French diplomat and the company said on Saturday.

Marc Bouteiller, chief of the French economic mission in Algeria, was speaking to Reuters to confirm a report by local newspaper El Khabar on Saturday about the French firm move.

[george76]

The BBC’s David Bamford says some other European companies have adopted the same policy as it becomes clear that the return this year of Islamist-inspired violence in Algeria may not be a short-term phenomenon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7032102.stm

[M. Espinola]

Most in the mass media have ignored the brutal radical jihadist war of terror under way in Algeria for a number of years.

1960: The Algerian War (Guerre d'Algérie), also known as Algerian War of Independence, took place between 1954 and 1962

Some things do not change but become worse:

French companies employees collectively repatriated

Eight soldiers, four extremists killed in Algeria

Algerian policemen and soldiers inspect the rubble of military navy barracks of a coastal guard unit after a suicide bombing in Dellys, some 70 kms from Algiers. Algeria was rocked by its second suicide bombing in three days on Saturday as an explosion ripped through a naval barracks in the northeast of the country, killing at least 30 people.Algerian policemen and soldiers inspect the rubble of military navy barracks of a coastal guard unit after a suicide bombing in Dellys, some 70 kms from Algiers. Algeria was rocked by its second suicide bombing in three days on Saturday as an explosion ripped through a naval barracks in the northeast of the country, killing at least 30 people.AFP - Sat Sep 8th, 2007.

[dennisw]

OK hotshot -— You ever see “Battle of Algiers”?
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIH_enUS242US242&q=%22Battle+of+Algiers%22

[M. Espinola]

Yes, I have, and in terms of a movie “Battle of Algiers” is more like a very well done documentary.

[dennisw]

I saw the DVD last year and prolly also saw it years ago in college. Lefty propaganda but is good and our military has men watch it to understand the Islamic carnage in Iraq

[M. Espinola]

The Algerian civil war of the late 1950's through 1962 illustrates the roots of what evolved into the modern era's jihadist fanaticism in Algeria for total control.

On the international front radicalised jihadism's goal is for nothing less then absolute world domination, armed and financed by Iran and or Saudi Arabia, contingent on either Sunni or Shi'ite instigated terrorism, alarmingly under way, in Algeria, Lebanon, Gaza, Afghanistan, Iraq, northern Nigeria, the Sudan, Dagestan, Pakistan, southern Thailand..... - the list is far too long.