Bouteflika plans Tizi-Ouzou campaign stop amid security concerns
2009-03-26
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika held a campaign rally in Bejaia on Wednesday (March 25th), where he urged Algerians to exercise their voting rights in the April 9th presidential elections. At least 2000 security officers have been deployed to Tizi-Ouzou to prepare for Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's visit on Friday. Bouteflika will not hold a rally, however, since the threat of terrorism remains elevated in the region, Tout sur l'Algerie reported on Thursday (March 26th).
Earlier this month, a suicide bomber killed two people at a communal guard barracks in the Tizi-Ouzou town of Tadmait. Days later, also near Tadmait, four soldiers died during an ambush by terrorists. On Tuesday evening, a "large" group of armed fighters attacked the police station in Ouassif, 40 km south-east of Tizi Ouzou, Echorouk reported on Wednesday (March 25th). Two police officers were injured in the exchange of gunfire.
Meanwhile, Bouteflika's opponents in the elections have harshly criticised his social politics since the beginning of the election campaign, AFP reported Wednesday. Workers' Party candidate Louisa Hanoune and El Islah candidate Mohamed Djahid Younsi particularly question the validity of the government's official unemployment statistics.
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barakat Posted 2009-03-27
Peace, mercy and blessings of God be upon you. I can only say, there is no power and no will but from God. In reality it is stupid to fool people. What happens in Algeria and all the Arab nations is the result of the sleep of the people, play and aberrance from the right path, ignorance of the path and method of the Messenger. By God the heart is sad and sorrowful for the situation of this oppressed Umma against which all other nations are plotting like eaters who surround a dish. The problem is that they turn a blind eye and think they are guided but....??? Anyway, may God solve our problems and assist us.
أبناء الجزائر Posted 2009-03-27
Amar circus…Amar circus was in the past a band of women and men who acted in a circus. Its name was derived from its owner “Amar”. It was not a real circus. It was just a band which was looking for bread (a living) as it is said. It used to move from town to town, from village to village, to market and promote the greatness of France, its power and ability to crush the rebel “Fellaga”, and highwaymen who declared rebellion against it! They depict them as a group of few shoeless and naked people, without power or arms. However, even if the people were at the time powerless, they used to attend the scene for entertainment. But they did not believe the propaganda and believed the slogan launched by the revolution at the time “live happy or die as martyr”. The tricks and naïve artifices did not even convince kids. The operation is the same today led by His Bigness, as a blogger called him, and his group. They are saying the new era of his presidency will be a good and blessed opening for Algeria and its people. Everyone will enjoy security and prosperity in all the aspects of life. This is done with some harsh criticism to the deteriorated conditions of the citizen today, as His Bigness put it in Setif for example, he said literally “corruption has reached its top, it has even invaded sports, illegal dealing is practised it in it openly”. He speaks as of the terrible corruption which happened and is happening was born and grew up under another president, not His Bigness. The question asked by citizens after exiting the place of the meetings: Is His Excellency still sound mentally to rule for ten more years as he is criticising widely-spread corruption whose birth and plague he personally monitored??? The funniest, and sadest thing at the same time, is that he was in the city of Setif and addressed the people as if they were the people of the city of Skikda.
نقطة حبر Posted 2009-04-01
Salam alikum. We aren't stupid as you think. It is just calmness which precedes the storm. We are not slaves or beggars. Algeria belongs to all of us. It doesn't belong to you or to your group of...
Rahim Posted 2009-04-01
What is happening in Algeria right know is a shame. The Algerian people have endure so much and they really deserve better than this. Amending the supreme law of the land so that his "Bigness" can rule until he drops dead is a complete corrupte process. No body is really voting..No body believe in the scam anylonger...Go ahead Mr. big and rule...
aissawa Posted 2009-04-03
Since the beginnings signs showed the inevitable results of the elections; an enemy you know is better than an enemy you don't know. I beg Abdelaziz Bouteflika to relieve the burden on man and grant him an adequate opportunity to lean his right side on the left and the opposite, respect God in women by not depriving her of her femininity, grant her rights she cannot afford, the society becomes femininist and wages war against terrorism of the administration instead of covering it with terrorism of the mountain. Oh Lord help us to the shore of safety.
algerien Posted 2009-04-15
Please do a serious poll on Bouteflika’s popularity.
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