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2003-05-16 North Africa

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Posted by Steve 2003-05-16 10:44 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Islam. The religion of peace.

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-05-16 11:56:41|| 2003-05-16 11:56:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like these guys have found a new and potentially steady source of revenue. Maybe they'll start issuing coupons soon: "Ransom 4 hostages, get the 5th one free!"

Posted by Dar 2003-05-16 12:38:48|| 2003-05-16 12:38:48|| Front Page Top

#3 You know, if you're crazy enough to want to go to the Sahara Desert on your vacation, then you probably deserve to be taken hostage by the even crazier bastards who choose to live there.

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-16 12:50:51|| 2003-05-16 12:50:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Check out the new communique from the Free Officers Movement of Algeria at anp.org for their take on the "release". This website gives you a whole different take on what's happening in that tragic country.

Posted by Michael 2003-05-16 15:19:31|| 2003-05-16 15:19:31|| Front Page Top

#5 I did just check out the Free Officers Movement. They are not funny. But one phrase did leap off the page (re: the assassination of the Presidente):

"an acute decerebration was caused by the several bullets that hit his brain".

Acute decerebration. That was worth the price of admission.

Otherwise, this is another place that needs a serious GPS survey.

Posted by Mark IV 2003-05-16 16:08:02|| 2003-05-16 16:08:02|| Front Page Top

#6 My earlier post on this seems to have got lost! Mmm!

I think we should be careful about labelling armed resistance to an Arab government as terrorists. Algeria has had an on-again off-again civil war between the Arabs and Berbers for a long time(Tuaregs are Berbers).

Also tourists who are dumb enough to visit a war-zone don't get a lot sympathy from me!

Posted by Phil B 2003-05-16 16:15:11|| 2003-05-16 16:15:11|| Front Page Top

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