Extractions: TELECOMWORLDWIRE-16 July 2001-Inmarsat forms partnership with Algerian government (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The mobile satellite communications company Inmarsat Ltd and the Algerian Ministry of Post and Telecommunications have partnered to expand Inmarsat's satellite operations in North Africa and the Middle East. The two parties have signed a Land Earth Station Operators agreement, under which a new land earth station will be commissioned at Lakhdaria about 70km east of the capital Algiers. Because of its location, the station will link with the two Inmarsat satellites operating in the eastern region of the Atlantic Ocean. With the station, Inmarsat and the Algerian government hope to expand and complement the existing terrestrial and mobile communications network in the country in addition to addressing the communications needs of the whole region. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
ALGERIA AT THE BRINK Forces The struggle for Algeria s political and cultural future continues unabated,despite occasional attempts at dialogue by the algerian government and the http://www.ndu.edu/inss/strforum/SF_32/forum32.html
Extractions: Number 32, June 1995 Author: William Lewis, Senior Fellow Note: Conclusions Background ... Recommendations European Perspectives Within southern European capitals, quiet consultations have been initiated to prepare contingency plans should the government in Algiers collapse under Islamic radical pressures. The betting at present is that such a denouement is not imminent, nor do the governments of France, Italy, and Spain share the sentiment of Willy Claes, NATO's Secretary-General, who publicly suggested in March that radical Islam constitutes the biggest threat to the West, taking over where communism has left off. (He has since receded from this view.) Nevertheless, all three of these NATO member states are fearful that a takeover of Algeria by radical Islamic groups would have dire consequences: The French government has been divided in its Algerian policy, with the foreign ministry urging a negotiated settlement and the defense ministry supporting the Algerian military. However, confidence in the latter has eroded witness declining French economic aid and the newly installed Chirac presidency may tilt policy in favor of a negotiated settlement. The primary challenge, from the perspective of southern Europe's governments, is to develop an appropriate strategy to cope with a looming crisis laden with far-reaching consequences for their own political and economic orders. To date, NATO's northern European members have evinced little inclination to fashion approaches to deal with Algeria's political turbulence.
Algerian Massacres - Attack Against (fwd) Wed, 29 Oct 1997 134032 0500 (EST) From Faisal Waheed waheed@symbol.com DateWed, 29 Oct 1997 080827 -0500 algerian government behind Massacres The http://www.isnet.org/archive-milis/archive97/oct97/msg00611.html
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Letter To The Atlantic Monthly Re: Algerian Massacres Roger Kaplan s claim that the algerian government bears little or no responsibilityfor the many thousands of killings usually attributed to Islamic extremist http://desip.igc.org/AtMoAlgeriaLetter.html
Extractions: Security Issues Project Letter to the Atlantic Monthly Re: Algerian Massacres by Ronald Bleier rbleier@igc.org Note: The following letter was mailed to the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly on August 31, 1998. Apparently the editors have chosen not to publish it. To the Editor: Roger Kaplan's claim that the Algerian government bears little or no responsibility for the many thousands of killings usually attributed to Islamic extremist groups since the cancellation of the 1992 elections ("The Libel of Moral Equivalence," August 1998), seems another case of Muslim bashing rather than a serious attempt at political analysis. Kaplan's article would have been more persuasive had it included a consideration of increasing popular opposition to 30 years of kleptocracy, mismanagement, corruption, and oppression by the Algerian ruling elite. The reason that the Islamic opposition party was poised to win in the 1992 elections involved as much a rejection of the ruling party as it was an embrace of strict Islamic rule. Nor does Kaplan mention the imprisonment, torture and killings of many of the more moderate opposition leaders who might have participated in power sharing arrangements. The resulting vacuum left the field to many of the more inexperienced and extremist Islamic leaders, some of whom were coopted by agents of the government Security services.
Extractions: The GIA has not targeted Americans in Algeria. But some Algerian terrorists who have tried to attack the United States may be linked to the GIA. In December 1999, Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian living in Montreal, was arrested at the U.S.-Canadian border with a carload of explosives; he was later convicted of plotting a millennium-eve attack on Los Angeles International Airport. Ressam has since led authorities to alleged co-conspirators in Canada and the United States. Who are the members of the GIA? Experts say the GIA recruits young Algerian men suffering from economic despair and political alienation. In Algeria, 70 percent of the population is under 30 years of age, and per capita income has dropped 50 percent from its peak in 1986. Unemployment, which hovers around 30 percent for the general population, spikes to 75 percent among men aged 16 to 24. Who is the leader of the GIA?
Algeria: Government Links Algeria joined the League of Arab States in 1962. Nature and Structure of GovernmentCapital Algiers. Algerian ministries algerian government ministries. http://www.siftthru.com/algeriagov.htm
Extractions: Algeria. Algeria joined the League of Arab States in 1962. Nature and Structure of Government: Capital: Algiers. Type: Republic. Long Form of Name:... ask-awi - Algeria Watch International, answer service ALGERIA: The Commission on Human Rights Must Act Now - An Amnesty International news release. ALGERIAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL PHYSICISTS ALGERIAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL PHYSICISTS. This page has been selected to receive a Links2Go Key Resource award in the Physics Societies topic.... Algerian Consulate London - People's Democratic Republic of Algeria Welcome to the Algerian Consulate London Website! Last updated 04/09/99 Address: 6, Hyde Park Gate, London SW7 5EW Phone: 44/0171-589-6885 / Fax: 44/0171-589-7725 Query@Algerian Consulate london Consulate Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM, closed between 01:00 PM and 02:00 PM. Algerian Consulate in London
Algeria Minister of Public Health Chen Minzhang visited Algeria and signed the Agreementon Medical and Health Cooperation between Chinese and algerian government. http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zzjg/xybfs/gjlb/2798/default.htm
Extractions: China and Algeria have traditional and friendly relations When the Algerian interim-government was formed in Sept.1958, China immediately gave it recognition and established full diplomatic relations with Algeria on Dec. 20. Since Algeria won independence in 1962, the friendly relations and cooperation between China and Algeria have developed comprehensively in the political, economic, cultural, health and military fields. Algeria once made significant contributions to restoring China's legitimate seat in the United Nations as one of the co-sponsors (the other being Albania). In April 1997, the Foreign Ministries of the two countries signed the Agreement on Holding Regular Political Consultations. Algeria attaches great importance to developing relations with China.
RADIO ISLAM.Who's Behind Killings In Algeria? By Desert Man. in Algeria? And why the algerian government Insists to oppose anyindependent investigation, as FIS proposed for some months ago. http://www.radioislam.org/islam/english/debate/algeri1.htm
Extractions: HOME DEBATE. DEBATE DEBATE. Who's behind killings in Algeria? By Desert Man People seem to be ignoring or being unaware of the big picture behind what's going on in North Africa. No one ask who's gaining of the killings in Algeria? And why the Algerian government Insists to oppose any independent investigation, as FIS proposed for some months ago. The on-going violence is certainly not in the interest of the islamist and is only aimed to destroy their image, both nationally and internationally, and give the illegimate Algerian junta sympathy in international opinion. And why no attention is directed toward the role of the security forces, the government and the role of its western supporters? There's a ruthless competition going on between Anglophile and the francophile camps of the 'civilized' world for absolute domination of the African continent. US is looking for a proamerican poitical shift in the culturally and politically French dominated Algeria. This rivality is nothing new. 1994, the french-backed huttus massacred tutzies in Ruwanda and in 1996 the US backed tutzies massacred huttus as part of the anglo-american take-over of the french dominated Zaire. One million 'niggeres' killed here and there, one million niggers more or less, who cares. It's just statistics. Now the same tragedy is happeing to the Algerians, now much more near european borders. Now some arabs more or less... And Islam get the credit for the extremely Jaheliat behaviors! When married women get raped by savages the western media explain it with temporary marriage! I hope the racist blood-thirsty Europe just enjoy it. US government is surprisingly very silent, as in the case of drug-dealer Talibans abusing every human rights of innocent Afghans. Neither USA nor France want under any conditions see emergence of a free and independent Algeria. They have during 90-is tried any means to stop islamists to peacefully take-over the power.
CPJ Protests algerian government Places Restrictions on the Foreign Media. http://www.cpj.org/protests/99ltrs/algeria09April99.html
Extractions: On the occasion of Algeria's upcoming presidential election next week, as the international media prepare to cover events inside the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), writes to express deep concern about ongoing government restrictions on foreign journalists who report from Algeria. For several years, CPJ has documented continued government strictures on the freedom of movement of foreign reporters inside Algeria. Algerian authorities have systematically enforced a policy of providing mandatory armed government escorts for foreign reporters-a policy which has severely curtailed the ability of journalists to carry out their work. Reporters have consistently noted that the presence of escorts, who accompany reporters to all destinations outside of their hotels, prevents them from conducting serious investigative journalism in Algeria, including carrying out sensitive interviews and meeting with opposition figures. CPJ views such limitations on the press as clear infringements on the universally accepted right of journalists to "seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers," as guaranteed by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
CPJ News Alert even if they do it with a touch of skepticism. The algerian government has assertedthat security escorts are essential for foreign journalists protection. http://www.cpj.org/news/1999/Algeria09April99.html
Extractions: The Algerian government has asserted that security escorts are essential for foreign journalists' protection. Indeed, during the first half of the decade, Algeria was the most dangerous country in the world to practice journalism. CPJ has documented that 58 reporters and editors were killed by suspected militants between 1993-1996. Yet by the government's own accounts, in recent years the country's security situation has improved markedly, asserting that "terrorism" has become a "residual" phenomenon. Foreign reporters who travel to Algeria increasingly describe mandatory security escorts as a mechanism of government control-to monitor and restrict the reporting and movements of journalists-rather than a means of protection. In April 1998, then-Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, in an address to the Algerian senate, rejected complaints that the work of foreign journalists was being impeded in Algeria, saying "We have nothing to hide." One month earlier, in March 1998, a delegation from the Paris-based World Association of Newspapers had secured unequivocal pledges from former Communications Minister Habib Chawki Hamraoui that foreign journalists would be able to refuse armed escorts within a matter of "weeks or months." To date, this pledge has not been fulfilled and foreign reporters continue to chafe under restrictions on their movement. The following are excerpts taken from CPJ interviews with foreign correspondents who have worked in Algeria and from press reports filed by journalists reporting from the country. They describe, up close, some of the restrictions that foreign correspondents face on the ground in Algeria. Additional comments from reporters will be updated on CPJ's website.
EFGP : Archive The policy of the algerian government to arm the civils and encourage the formationof militias has not reduced the level of violence, on the contrary, it has http://www.europeangreens.org/info/archive/helsinki10.html
Extractions: return to table : Archive EFGP 6th council meeting, Helsinki, Finland, 27-29 March 1998 Since the cancellation of the elections in 1992, more than 80.000 Algerians have been killed in a mercyless conflict between the armed forces and 'islamist' armed groups, whose methods have reached unprecedented levels of cruelty. Since October 1997 only, about 2000 men, women and children have been killed, tortured or disappeared... The civilian population has been trapped more and more in a spiral of violence, having nowhere to seek security, caught between the threats of the 'islamist' groups and those of the armed forces. As was shown during the recent massacres, the Algerian security forces have not been able to guarantee the security of the population. The policy of the Algerian government to arm the civils and encourage the formation of militias has not reduced the level of violence, on the contrary, it has further drawn the civilian population into the conflict. The international community has been so far unable or unwilling to take and implement any measures to find solutions to this tragedy, beyond pale condemnations of the violence and calls for a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
The Algeria-France Impasse Winter 1996 France is willing to supply aid, but thus far it has made it contingenton a strict algerian government policy toward the opposition. http://www.yale.edu/iforum/Winter1996/algeriaWin96.htm
Extractions: by Cody Constable T he chronology is long and bloody. August 5, 1994: Five French citizens are assassinated in Algeria. Christmas 1994: An Algerian hijacks an Air France plane bound for France; three passengers are killed. From July 25 to October 17, 1995, a wave of terrorism sweeps France; seven bombs kill ten people and wound 130. May 23, 1996: Algerian terrorists announce that they have cut the throats of seven French priest they had kidnapped two months earlier. August 1, 1996: Herve de Charette, the French Foreign Minister, arrives in Algiers; the same evening French Bishop Pierre Claverie is assassinated in Oran. Roots of the Conflict This liberalization of Algerian politics allowed for expression of dormant Islamic opposition to one-party rule. The FIS gained enormous popularity, won a majority of the National Assembly seats in the first round of general elections in December 1991 and stood poised to win the final round. Benjedid declared the election results invalid, banned the FIS, and dissolved the National Assembly. One week later, Benjedid resigned under pressure form the military. A five-member High Council of State assumed control of the government. General Mohammed Boudiaf, who headed the council, declared that new elections would be held in two years. The FIS rejected this unilaterally imposed arrangement. Boudiaf was assassinated soon after by the FIS. During the four-year civil war that followed the assassination, the High Council of State, backed by the military, remained in power. FIS radicals attacked innocent civilians in an effort to convert them to their cause and attacked French citizens in order to protest French support for the regime. the military cracked down on FIS activity. The FIS has since tired of war and confrontations have been less frequent, but terrorist attacks continue. Currently the government is headed by President Liamine Zaroual, a moderate FLN party member. In a December 1995 referendum, 61 percent of the Algerian electorate approved of his leadership. although support for Zeroual has been interpreted as a plea for peace, the military continues to support his government and threatens to crush any future uprising. Meanwhile, the FIS and other banned opposition parties continue to demand the right to participate in parliamentary elections. The current relative calm may only be temporary.
Extractions: Algeria Algeria By the early 1980s, the Islamist movement provided a greater rallying point for opposition elements than did secular leftists. Although Islam was identified with the nationalist struggle against the French, the Algerian government had controlled its practice since independence through the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Superior Islamic Council. The council maintained "official" mosques and paid the salaries of imams (religious leaders). Beginning in 1979, however, concurrent with the religious revolution that toppled the government of Iran, large numbers of young people began to congregate at mosques that operated beyond the control of the authorities. At prayer meetings, imams not paid by the government preached in favor of a more egalitarian society, against the arrogance of the rich, and for an end to corrupt practices in government, business, and religion. In a pattern of escalating violence during the early 1980s, religious extremists became increasingly active, assaulting women in Western-style dress, questioning the legitimacy of the "Marxist" Algerian government, and calling for an Islamic republic that would use the Quran as its constitution. After a brutal confrontation between Marxist and Islamist demonstrators at the University of Algiers in November 1982, the authorities rounded up and prosecuted for subversion students, imams, and intellectuals linked with the Algerian Islamic Movement headed by Mustapha Bouyali. Bouyali himself remained at large, forming a guerrilla band that was involved in a number of clashes with security forces. He was killed in early 1987, and his group was disbanded.
Extractions: Algeria Algeria Algeria shares a cultural identity with the Arab-Islamic nations but is separated by its distance from the rest of the Middle East. The closed nature of the authoritarian regime that governed Algeria for most of its independent history has precluded the development of mass enthusiasm for, or awareness of, external causes and conflicts. Data as of December 1993
Agricultural Investment Opportunitie On April 26, 2001, the algerian government adopted a Programme of Supportto Boost the Algerian Economy covering the period 20012004. http://www.algeria-us.org/econcom/agriculture092701.htm
Extractions: Once the core of the Algerian economy, the totally privatised agricultural sector, today represents 12 percent of Algeria's Gross Domestic Product. It has a turnover of $8 billion and employs 21% of its workforce. Algerias main crop production includes cereals (2.4 million tons), citrus (360 thousand tons), dates (300 thousand tons), legumes (47 thousand tons), grapes, and olives. Algerias agricultural exports amount to $30 m b illion mainly to the European Union countries (60%). Because of occasional drought, and in spite of an annual 4% increase in its agricultural output, Algeria has a rather low degree of self-sufficiency in food production, except for red meat, fruits, and vegetables. The shortfall applies in particular to cereals (65%), dairy products (58%), legumes (70%), coffee, tea, and sugar (100%). To meet the needs of its growing population, Algeria relies on imports, whose annual average value, between 1996 and 1999, amounted to $2.5 billion and included the following commodities: grain products (35%), dairy products (15%), sugar (10%), vegetable oil, tea, coffee, and spices (6.5%), and legumes In this respect, the United States is one of Algeria's most important trading partners. According to the US Department of Commerce, in 2000 the US exported over $250 million in agricultural products to Algeria. In 1997, 94% of Algeria's imported maize and 74% of its imported wheat came from the United States.
Algeria Interface - Politics Search. TRIAL EVIDENCE REVEALS algerian government ATROCITIES. The arrest came aftercontacts between the algerian government and the British embassy in Algiers. http://www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php?article_id=85&lng=e
Algeria Interface - Politics More Search. ILO CALLS ON algerian government TO RESPECT LABOUR RIGHTS.The International Labor Organization has urged the Algerian http://www.algeria-interface.com/new/article.php?article_id=611&lng=e
Backtalk (December 19, 2001) The article seems to state that Ahmed Ressam was linked with the GIA, that theGIA is sponsored by the algerian government (our new pals in the war against http://eatthestate.org/06-09/Backtalk.htm
Extractions: Volume 6, #9 December 19, 2001 POLITICS WITH BITE! CONTACT HELP BACK ISSUES A FORUM FOR ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL OPINION, RESEARCH AND HUMOR 2001 Media Follies The 50 best films of 2001: Eat The Economy! Fair Trade for Sale ... Eat These Shorts! Backtalk Activist Calendar Reclaim Our History Nature and Politics Backtalk ETS!, Hi, a quick questionI'm confused by Jacob Mundy's article on Algeria. It states a lot of facts but then does not summarize or review the implications, so I feel that I need to ask for clarification. The article seems to state that Ahmed Ressam was linked with the GIA, that the GIA is sponsored by the Algerian Government (our new pals in the war against terror), and that the GIA tried to fly a plane into the Eiffel Tower. The implication is that we are supporting Ahmed Ressam's group, a group that tried to carry out a 9/11-style attack. Is this correct? Also, what is the Algerian government doing supporting an Islamic group? I thought these Islamic groups were the government's enemy. Is the GIA like a company union? The face of Islam that is tolerable to the government? (The article said the GIA was "government-supported.") So if the GIA works for the Algerian government, who is its enemy? Other Islamic groups? I'll buy that, but then why does it carry out terrorist attacks in France (and try to carry them out in the US)? Is France aligned with the bona fide insurgents, the hardline Islamic groups? Somehow I doubt it.
IOL : Algerian Group Ready To Link Up With Al-Qaeda the Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC), an armed organisation whose decadelongaim has been to overthrow the algerian government, declared allegiance http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&art_id=qw1078908480295B242&set_id=1