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2003-05-05 North Africa

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Posted by Steve 2003-05-05 08:06 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I wonder how many of them remain alive. I'm praying for their release.

Posted by KP 2003-05-05 08:14:33|| 2003-05-05 08:14:33|| Front Page Top

#2

Check out site anp.org (don't know if link is there) for another point of view of the kidnappings. The site is fascinating as the Free Officers Movement of Algeria had not posted any communiques since November, and I thought they had been penetrated. Again, a totally different perspective on the troubles in Algeria.

Posted by Michael 2003-05-05 09:50:30|| 2003-05-05 09:50:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Kidnapped by nomad smugglers, organized crime or islamo-nuts (or all of the above): either way they're not in an enviable position, to say the least. As the FOMA, I don't know; somehow, its main theme has more or less been "the gvt did all of the atrocities" and the dirty war fought by the algerian shock troops. While the bloodletting certainly was and is instrumentalized by the generals, no doubts about it, this one-sidedness makes me uneasy.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-05-05 15:24:35|| 2003-05-05 15:24:35|| Front Page Top

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