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The President returned from Camp David on Saturday and hosted a Tee Ball game on Sunday. The Vice President concluded his overseas trip with meetings in Italy on Saturday and Sunday and has now boarded AF2 for what I presume is the flight back to the US. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended on Sunday a three-day visit to North Africa, including Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco Pray for President Bush - Day - 2916 & McCain/Palin - Day - 10 Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

snip...A 17-year-old French Jew was attacked on Saturday night in Paris, an assault condemned by President Nicolas Sarkozy and said by Jewish organizations to be an act of anti-Semitism. snip...Police said five youths had been held for questioning, and one police source told Reuters the victim was suffering "serious neurological problems." snip..."The victim was wearing a kippa and was on his way back home when his attackers, after identifying him as Jewish, started to beat him," the union said. snip...Two police sources said the attack took place right after a skirmish between two groups of youths, one Jewish and the...

Algeria Muslim body slams Christian evangelistsSun 1 Jun 2008, 7:22 GMTALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria hit back on Saturday at foreign accusations minority Christians are harassed, saying Protestant evangelicals were secretly trying to divide Algerians to colonise the mainly Muslim north African country.http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN130142.html   The Rising Threat of Revolutionary Islam in Algeria A radical Islamic victory in Algeria would pose significant long-term threats to US interests in North Africa, the Middle East, and the Muslim world ...http://www.heritage.org/Research/Africa/BG1060.cfm   2 bombings near Algerian capital wound 6 peopleThe Associated Press - Jun 4, 2008Algeria's Islamic militants have mounted increasing attacks over the past...

No mystery as to why Christian missionaries might be having their greatest success in the Kabyle. In Algeria, that remains the Berber heartland. It is where the Berbers, that is those who were not forcibly transformed, during the centuries of Arab rule (interrupted by 132 years of French rule) into "Arabs" (how many of those "Arabs" who now persecute the Berbers realize that they themselves are a generation, or two, or five removed from their clearly Berber origins?) The cause of the Berbers is hardly known in this country. The writer Kateb Yacine, a Berber who refused to write in...

The 2008 Dakar Rally has been cancelled because of safety concerns in the African republic of Mauritania. Four French tourists were murdered in Mauritania on 24 December, which led to the French government advising against any travel to the country. Eight of the rally's 15 stages were due to pass through Mauritania. The event's organisers, the Amaury Sport Organisation, said there had been "direct threats against the race issued by terrorist groups". The annual car and motorcycle marathon had been due to start in Lisbon on 5 January with the finish coming in Dakar on 20 January. "Following several consultations...

.."surrendered after disagreements with other leaders in the organization."

ALGIERS, Algeria (Reuters) -- Algerian security forces have killed the mastermind of suicide bombings including a triple attack in Algiers in April that claimed 33 lives, a government-run newspaper reported on Thursday. Rachid Sid Ali, a military adviser to the al Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, was killed on July 30 in the troubled Kabylie region east of Algiers, El Moudjahid said. He was killed along with his aide Haroun El Achaachi "thanks to the help of the local population of Iboudranene" village near Kabylie's main town of Tizi Ouzou, the daily added, citing a security source. Attacks plotted...

Ethiopia's 'secret war' forces thousands to flee By David Blair in Gode Last Updated: 2:32am BST 09/10/2007 Ethiopian troops have been deployed to crush Somali rebels from the Ogaden National Liberation Front Few places are more desolate than southern Ethiopia, where the barren plains suffer hunger and poverty even when the rains fall. Yet one of Britain's closest African allies is waging a brutal military campaign in this bleak region, burning villages and forcing thousands to flee their homes. Ethiopia, the recipient of £130 million of British aid this year, is fighting a virtually unknown guerilla war on the borderlands...

ALGIERS (Reuters) - The deputy chief of al Qaeda's North Africa wing, believed to be the group's operational leader, was killed along with two other rebels in a gun battle with Algerian troops, local newspapers said on Tuesday. Hareg Zoheir, also known as Sofiane Abu Fasila, was said to be the second-in-command of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and suspected of being behind planning most of the suicide bombings in Algeria in the recent months. He was shot dead on Sunday at a check point in the eastern region of Tzizi Ouzou, the country's leading dailies reported. "Sofiane is...

Mideast: President Bush warns Syria not to interfere in Lebanon's selection of a new president. Whether in Iraq, Afghanistan or Lebanon, democracy will be defended against those who would extinguish it. President Bush met last Thursday with Saad Hariri, leader of the anti-Syrian majority in the Lebanese parliament, and son of assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. After the meeting, Bush warned Damascus against meddling in Lebanon's delayed and upcoming presidential election. He is telling Damascus that its ambitions end at the Lebanese border. "I am deeply concerned about foreign interference in your elections," Bush told Hariri, adding that many...

Why Did FDR Invade North Africa?By James Lewis   One of the clichéd questions of the Left is "Why did Bush invade Iraq? We were attacked by Saudi Arabians on 9/1 !" Or so goes the customary narrative.   This mantra is supposed to expose President Bush's stupidity. But in fact The Question reveals the asker's own clueless blunder about war and strategy. The proper answer is to point to other presidents and other wars. Like FDR after Pearl Harbor.    After the "day that will live in infamy" FDR's first land attack took place in Morocco and Algeria, then...

ALGIERS, (Reuters) - The Algerian army, stepping up a counter-offensive after attacks by al Qaeda's north Africa wing, has killed around 16 of the group's fighters in the past three days, newspapers reported on Saturday. At least 13 members of the al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb were killed near borders with Tunisia in Tebessa province, some 634 km (396 miles) east of the capital Algiers, independent dailies Liberte and El Khabar said. The army was acting on information provided by a captured rebel, the papers cited security sources as saying. In a separate operation, the military killed three...

A suicide bomber blew up a refrigerated truck allegedly packed with upto a ton of explosives inside a military encampment southeast of the Algerian capital, killing 10 soldiers and wounding up to 35. Al-Qaida’s North African affiliate claimed responsibility for the truck attack on Wednesday, the Al-Jazeera TV network reported. The TV network quoted a recorded message from an alleged spokesman for the extremist group. The truck drove into the small post on the edge of Lakhdaria, some 80 kilometers from Algiers, as the doors opened in the morning for arriving personnel. Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni, speaking at the...

Moroccan police detained 15 suspected members of the al Qaeda Organization for the Countries of the Arab Maghreb, daily newspaper Al Massa reported July 10. News of their detention came after Morocco increased its security alert level to "maximum" and the European Union and Israel warned of the increased possibility of militant attacks within the country. Security at diplomatic and tourist sites in Morocco has been tightened in light of the warnings in order to prevent any attacks from occurring; however, such a change in security posture could deflect any attack toward softer targets. Analysis Fifteen suspected members of the...

Algerian security forces have arrested 13 minors and dismantled a suspected training camp used by an al-Qaeda linked group east of the capital Algiers, security sources said Sunday. After a two month investigation the minors, aged 12 to 17, 10 of them junior high school students, were arrested at the camp in the Boumerdes region 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of the capital, which the security forces suspect was being used by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. The outlawed Islamic group has recently rebranded itself as the North African branch of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network. Local chiefs...

Algiers, 8 June (AKI) - Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb - the new name for the old Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) - has launched its first website since the new terror alliance was formed several months ago. The organisation, which claimed responsibility for the 11 April bomb attacks that killed 30 people in Algiers, is taking an increasingly high profile both in its jihadi activities and in its use of the internet for propaganda. Much prominence is given to photos of mujahadeen on what the site says is a Mediterranean beach, giving the impression that the terror...

SALE, Morocco (AP) - A long-stalled trial for more than 50 alleged terrorists accused of plotting attacks on military and tourist sites in Morocco got under way Friday, with new purported links to foreign extremists emerging. Moroccan authorities introduced at least four more suspects Friday to the original 58, after recent arrests following up on the initial police investigation last summer. Of the four confirmed new suspects, one was arrested in Libya, where he is alleged to have links to terrorists networks. Another, arrested in Morocco, is accused of ties to a hard-line Islamic militia in Somalia. Previously, Moroccan authorities...

ALGIERS, May 20 (Reuters) - Algerian security forces have arrested 12 suspected Islamic militants accused of links to triple suicide bombings last month and other attacks claimed by al Qaeda's north African wing, official media said on Sunday. The arrests followed information given by a suspect captured some two weeks after the April 11 bombings in Algiers that killed 33 people, state radio quoted a security source as saying. The suspects were also involved in truck bomb attacks on Oct. 30 on two police stations that killed six people, it said. Police also seized large quantities of explosives and bomb-making...

Algeria: Security forces dismantle group allegedly linked to deadly April terror bombings ALGIERS, Algeria: Algerian security forces have dismantled a suspected support network linked to twin terror bombings last month in the capital that killed 30 people and were claimed by an alleged al-Qaida affiliate, the official news agency reported Saturday. Authorities arrested one member of the alleged logistical cell within two weeks of the April 11 bombings in Algiers, and by following the suspect's testimony rounded up 11 others, the APS news agency said, citing unidentified security officials. It did not indicate when the 11 others were detained. A...

Algiers, 15 May (AKI) - Twenty seven people were killed since Sunday in clashes between Algerian police and alleged militants with the Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, Arabic weekly al-Quds al-Arabi reported Tuesday. In a major security operation Sunday in the village of Ait Mousa in the region of Kabylie, about 100 kilometres east of the capital Algiers, security officials killed 17 terror suspects. Among them was allegedly one of the leaders of the terror group, Tawat Uthman, also known as Abu al-Abbas. One of the suspects subsequently handed himself over to police revealing where 25 militants were hiding...

Seven Islamic extremists and two members of Algeria's security forces have been killed in the violent run-up to parliamentary elections, newspapers reported Saturday. Three armed Islamists and one soldier were killed Thursday when fighting broke out during a military operation in the Tizi Ouzou region of Kabylie, 110 kilometres (70 miles) east of Algiers, the Liberte newspaper said. Another three extremists were killed on the same day in another military sweep, in Saida, 430 kilometres southwest of the capital, it added, as Algerians looked forward to the May 17 legislative polls. All six Islamists were said to be members of...

Algiers, 10 May (AKI) - In a major anti-terror police operation, the Algerian army has surrounded an area on the outskirts of Tizi Ouzou, in Kabylia, 100 km from Algiers to hunt down al-Qaeda militants allegedly hiding in the area, the local al-Watan paper reported Thursday. The operation reportedly kicked off Wednesday morning and is being carried out with ground troops and helicopters. Security around public buildings was also boosted over fears that would-be suicide bombers are preparing to strike. Local terror experts fear militants are preparing to strike in Tizi Ouzou in retaliation for the death of Samir Saioud,...

RABAT (Reuters) - Moroccan security forces broke up a network helping to recruit fighters for al Qaeda's North African branch and arrested around 20 people overnight in several towns across the country, a government official said on Sunday. The gang was involved in sending volunteers to training camps run by the Algerian-based al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), the official said, confirming an earlier report by state news agency MAP. "The operation ... allowed the arrest of around 20 people in several towns across the kingdom," MAP said....

RABAT, Morocco - Two brothers strapped with explosives blew themselves up near an American cultural center in Casablanca Saturday, and police arrested another three suspects — including one wearing an explosives belt — hours later, an official said. The attacks came just days after three suspected militants blew themselves up as they were cornered by police in Casablanca, and al-Qaida claimed suicide car bombings in neighboring Algeria that killed 33 people. The attacks have stoked new fears of Islamic terrorism in North Africa — especially in Morocco, long known for its stability. The Moroccan and Algerian governments have not addressed...

Algeria's official news agency (APS) says the death toll from Wednesday's suicide bombings in the capital has risen to 33. More than 200 others were wounded in the two car bombings - one, outside the office of Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem in central Algiers, and the second, at a police station in the Bab Ezzouar district in the city's eastern outskirts. Mr. Belkhadem condemned the attacks, calling them "provocative" actions by terrorists ahead of next month's parliamentary election. The "al-Qaida Organization in the Islamic Maghreb" posted a statement on the Internet claiming responsibility for the attacks, and published photos of...

Mr Mubarak wants to change election and terror laws Egyptians have begun voting in a key referendum on constitutional changes which the opposition criticise as paving the way for a police state.The 34 amendments include a ban on the creation of political parties based on religion, and sweeping security powers. The government says the changes will deepen democracy in the country and help in the fight against terrorism. Secular and Islamist opposition groups have called on supporters to boycott the referendum. If approved, the changes will allow the drafting of a new anti-terrorism law to replace the emergency legislation...

About 300 Sudanese have sought sanctuary in Israel Three years ago, David, a 26-year-old corn farmer, fled his burning village in the Darfur region of Sudan. Janjaweed - Arab militiamen loyal to the Khartoum government - rode into the village on horseback armed with machineguns and began killing the inhabitants. They torched his family home. "The fire ate my father," said David. His brother was also killed in the attack. David escaped to Egypt but was afraid that the authorities would send him back to Sudan. He then took the extraordinary step of paying Bedouin smugglers to take him...

CAIRO (AFP) - A Japanese archeological team has discovered three painted wooden coffins in Egypt, including two from the little-known Middle Kingdom period dating back more than 4,000 years. The sarcophagi were found in tomb shafts in the vast Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said on Saturday. "It is significant because of the discovery of two sarcophagi from the Middle Kingdom," said Japanese team leader Sakuji Yoshimori. The Saqqara burial grounds which date back to 2,700 BC and are dominated by the massive bulk of King Zoser's step pyramid --...

Abdulwahab heard of a plan to put Jewish women in a brothel Israel's main Holocaust memorial centre has for the first time nominated an Arab to be recognised as a "righteous gentile" for saving Jewish lives.Researchers at Yad Vashem will now examine the life of Khaled Abdulwahab, who died in his native Tunisia in 1997, to see if he is eligible for the award. He is said to have sheltered Jews on his land during the Nazi occupation. The Righteous Gentile award has already been bestowed on about 22,000 non-Jews, including 60 Muslims from the Balkans. The request to...

The leader of an Algerian terrorist group hinted in a new video posted on the Internet that his group would follow al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's instructions if asked to fight outside of Algeria. "Place us wherever you want. You will find us to be obedient," says Abu Musaab Abdul Wadud in the 22-minute video entitled "We Are Coming." The Algerian Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) joined al Qaeda in 2006 and pledged allegiance to bin Laden, as announced in a video by al Zawahri and later confirmed by the group itself. "Our brothers will be a...

There is an alarming development in Northern Africa in the growth of radical Islamic groups - as indicated by a new and official alliance between al-Qaida and the Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), warns Mathieu Guidère. __________________________________________ Al-Qaida’s number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, used the fifth anniversary of the 11 September attacks on the United States to announce on video that the Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) had officially joined al-Qaida. He had a message for France (despite its government’s refusal to follow the United States into Iraq as part of the war on terror:...

India is by far the largest outsourcing market with a predicted 169,000 offshore call center staff by 2010-- nearly double the present number of 95,000. But call centers in Eastern Europe are expected to triple in that same amount of time from 3,700 to more than 10,000. Growth in North Africa is also expected to triple from 7,800 to over 23,000-- mostly driven by Egypt. The major concerns are the high turnover rate in India and the instability in the latter players. Still, India has to be looking west, AND while doing so, looking back over its shoulder at China....

THE sole survivor of last autumn's accidental electrocution of three youths, which triggered the worst rioting in France for more than 40 years, was arrested on Tuesday as fresh riots broke out in Parisian suburbs for the second night running.Muhittin Altun, 18, was arrested on the eve of a judicial reconstruction of the controversial incident in which his two friends, also youths of African origin, were killed last October after taking refuge in an electricity sub-station in the deprived suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, ten miles east of central Paris. Mr Altun, who was seriously injured in the incident, said he and...

Fighting Terror On The Shores Of Tripoli The Evening Bulletin (Wednesday, 8 February, 2006, Page 2) By BRIAN ROCHFORD, THE EVENING BULLETIN Philadelphia —The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia continued its Bob Guzzardi Lecture Series this week with Joshua London, whose new book, "Victory at Tripoli," was published recently. Mr. London spoke at the law office of Blank Rome, and was introduced by Blank Rome chairman emeritus Jack Bershad. London’s book focuses on the American wars with the Barbary States (Tripoli, Algiers, Morocco, and Tunis) that occurred in the early 1800s. London draws parallels with the Barbary Wars to our...

In today’s edition, the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad writes that it has learned from its sources that the 16-year old boy who was arrested earlier this week for the murder of 17-year old Joe Van Holsbeeck, is called Marius. He belongs to a family of Polish gypsies who have been living in Belgium illegally since 2000. Marius was studying garage mechanics at a school in Anderlecht, a Brussels suburb, where he was arrested on Monday evening at 4:30 pm. His teachers had recognized him on the footage of security cameras in Brussels Central Station. Marius had already been involved in...

<p>BASRA, Iraq (AP) - Ali Hassan al-Majid, dubbed ``Chemical Ali'' by opponents of the Iraqi regime for ordering a poison gas attack that killed thousands of Kurds, has been found dead, a British officer said Monday.</p> <p>Maj. Andrew Jackson of the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment told The Associated Press that his superiors had confirmed the death of the man who is also President Saddam Hussein's first cousin.</p> <p>Jackson said the body was found along with that of his bodyguard and the head of Iraqi intelligence services in Basra.</p>

Reviewing "Victory in Tripoli: How America’s War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation," by Joshua E. London, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2005. 276 pages, Photos, map, bibliography, index Though America’s first encounter with the Barbary States occurred in October 1784 when the Betsey was captured and her crew taken to Morocco, our wars with the Barbary pirates began officially in 1801. The Tripolitan Wars, as they were formally known, were waged against maritime terrorists who operated from the modern day states of Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Algiers, arrayed along Africa’s northern coast in...

Asharq Al-Awsat, Rabat - Investigations carried out by the Moroccan security services after the arrest of a terrorist cell that was made up of 17 members have uncovered the cell's terrorist plans. These plans included restructuring the Al-Qaeda organization in Saudi Arabia following the Saudi security forces' success in finding and arresting a number of its activists. The cell also planned to have the extremist Algerian Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) rejoin Osama Bin Ladin's organization and set up an Al-Qaeda branch in the Maghreb countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) as a base for attacks to be launched on...

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- The U.S. military has wrapped up exercises aimed at getting north and west African troops ready to fight al Qaeda-linked terrorists and making sure the militants don't get a toehold in a region of porous borders and weak states. U.S. commanders said Thursday they hope the exercise was only the beginning of a long-term relationship. Starting June 6, 700 U.S. troops ran about 2,100 soldiers from nine North and West African nations through counterterrorism exercises including mock patrols, target practice -- even airborne parachute drills that sent hundreds of African soldiers drifting from U.S. C-130 transport...

Something is brewing but nobody knows quite what Jun 2nd 2005 | CAIRO From The Economist print edition President Hosni Mubarak is struggling to keep a lid on reform but knows he must allow people to let off a lot more steam “THE problem is not that you're heading the wrong way, but that you've got one short leg and one long leg.” When a keen observer of Egypt said this ten years ago, he was referring to its halting steps at economic reform. The words could just as well describe current moves towards political reform. Egypt's desire for change...

Despite the fact that most of the fighting against the Axis forces and Vichy France in North Africa had been conducted with honour and dispatch by Algerian troops the French decided to celebrate the victory of the Allies (a small part of whom were French) by committing an act of barbarism and genocide that echoes to this day. In one weekend of violence they murdered 45,000 Algerians. On May 8, 1945, a day chosen by the allies to celebrate their victory over Nazi Germany, thousands of Algerians gathered near the Abou Dher El-Ghafari mosque in Setif for a peaceful march...

Inside the neo-con PentagonOfficer reveals how Bush appointees suppressed facts and twisted truth to drive America to war with Iraq . In July of last year, after just over 20 years of service, I retired as a lieutenant-colonel in the U.S. Air Force. My career started in 1978 with the smooth seduction of a full four-year ROTC scholarship. It ended with 10 months of duty in a strange new country, observing up close and personal a process of decision-making for war not sanctioned by the Constitution. ~snip~ The education I would receive there was intense, fascinating and frightening. While the...

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WASHINGTON - In what may be his final official overseas trip, Secretary of State Colin Powell plans visits to Bulgaria, Belgium, the Netherlands and Morocco from Dec. 6 to 11. In Sofia, Powell will attend a meeting of the 55-member Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe. In Brussels, the main event will be a NATO Council meeting. Powell also plans to attend a U.S.-European Union meeting at The Hague. In Morocco, Powell will attend a meeting on ways to promote political, economic, and social reform in the Middle East and North Africa. Treasury Secretary John Snow also will travel...

...During the presidential campaign, Sen. John Kerry ridiculed the idea that the War on Terror could end in a definitive victory. The most that one could do, he argued, was to reduce terrorism to the level of a nuisance like prostitution, the Mafia and the illicit-drug trade. Bush, however, is offering something with which to measure success or failure in this war: the spread of democracy. If, when Bush leaves office in four years, the region holds more democracies, he could claim some success. If not, he'd have to admit failure. This, of course, is a high-risk strategy: Democracy has...

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If one believes in the core ideals of a Jeffersonian Democracy, then what better place to start then North Africa, as opposed to the Middle East. In a metaphorical way, the soil in North Africa is relatively rich and homogeneous, compared to that of the Middle East, to support the Oak tree that is Democracy. Iraq is a microcosm of the Middle East, regions that were once part of the Ottoman Empire were occupied by the colonial power England, and later divided based on “artificial” objectives. Hence, there has been (and may forever be) constant war based on those ethnic,...

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PARIS, July 4 — Libyan forces have discovered a terrorist camp with ties to Al Qaeda in the country's southern desert, a French newspaper reported Sunday. The report did not say whether the camp was active or abandoned when it was found 10 days ago. The newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche, quoted European antiterrorism officials as saying that the camp, thought to be used by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, was near the border with Chad not far from the region where Chadian rebels are holding one of the terrorist group's most senior members, Amari Saifi, known as...