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2006-03-02 Africa North

Algeria plans to release 2,000 Islamist fighters

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-03-02 04:19|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 There may be an ulterior motive at work here. The ambiguously worded charter was most likely crafted in order to grant amnesty to members of state-armed militias and security forces convicted of abuses. Not only will this bar victims from seeking justice it will obviate Algerias obligations under international law to investigate and remedy such abuses. The legislation even goes further to that end and makes it a crime to debate such abuses. Article 46 of the charter states:

"Anyone who, by speech, writing, or any other act, uses or exploits the wounds of the National Tragedy to harm the institutions of the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, to weaken the state, or to undermine the good reputation of its agents who honorably served it, or to tarnish the image of Algeria internationally, shall be punished by three to five years in prison and a fine of 250,000 to 500,000 dianars."

Posted by DepotGuy 2006-03-02 10:40|| 2006-03-02 10:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Next to be seen in Europe.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-03-02 11:03|| 2006-03-02 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 "Another batch of Number Threes for the Zarkman!"

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-03-02 11:07|| 2006-03-02 11:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Another day, and the world is still a madhouse.

Posted by wxjames 2006-03-02 11:37|| 2006-03-02 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 The fact is that the panarabist/islamist government and the islmaist rebels are ideologically quite close. The people now in governemnt were islamists even before the rebellion agsint the French, they created the most repressive regime against women in all Maghreb and they have agressively pursued a politic of islamisation and arabisation against the Berber populations. For instance they have amde use of Arab mandatory but not Algerian Arab, "classic" Arab ie Arab like talked in Arabia centuries ago.

I told abourt Algeria's berbers. For one part an incereasing number of them seem to be rejecting Islam as an instrument of foreign domination. For another part they are protesting because the Algerian government is replacing their suffi imams with wahabi ones.

As I said the governement and the islamist rebels share basically teh same ideology. The only differnce is about who will wear the golden turban and the fraction of the budget to be used for killing infidels.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-03-02 19:46|| 2006-03-02 19:46|| Front Page Top

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