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2012-05-07
Sahel terrorists warn of Algeria attacks
By Jemal Oumar for Magharebia in Nouakchott – 07/05/12
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) splinter group MUJAO set a price tag on the safe return of the Algerian and European hostages held in Mali, but analysts say it is unlikely that their demands will be satisfied.
MUJAO – Jamat Tawhid Wal Jihad Fi Garbi Afriqqiya – wants 15 million euros for the seven Algerian diplomats kidnapped in Gao, 30 million euros for two female aid workers abducted last October from a Sahrawi refugee camp, and the release of prisoners held by Algeria and Mauritania, terror group spokesman Adnan Abu Walid told Radio Africa 1 on Thursday (May 3rd).
If the demands are not met, the MUJAO spokesman said, "We're considering attacking Algeria in a way similar to the Tamanrasset attack."
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But MUJAO's threats to launch a terrorist attack on Algeria are actually an indication that they are not in a position to do so, security affairs expert Hamadi Ould Dah told Magharebia.
"This threat reflects too much inability and despair," he explained, adding that it is an attempt "to make up for the moral and military blow it has suffered at the hands of the Algerian army which killed about 20 of their terrorists at the end of April".
"The terrorist groups don't miss an opportunity to attack targets they believe are suitable. Therefore, their threat now to carry out the attack to free hostages means that they now realise that they could never achieve their goals through military action," Ould Dah said.
Stategic analyst Hajj Ould Ibrahim said he also "believes that the ransom demanded by the jihadist group is extremely exaggerated".
"Countries basically reject the principle of paying ransom to terrorist groups because these ransoms provide cash that helps these groups acquire more sophisticated weapons and enlist new recruits," he told Magharebia.
This is the official view of both Algeria and Mauritania, explained Ould Ibrahim.
"I don't think that the countries concerned will pay ransoms of this size to this terrorist group," he said.
He added that two options exist: to negotiate a reduction of this ransom or to free the hostages by force.
Mauritanian journalist and Taqadoumy editor Hanevy Ould Dedah agreed that paying ransom sends the wrong message.
Ould Dedah told Magharebia that ransom payments "may encourage the jihadist group to engage in more kidnappings as long as this would generate money for the terrorist group to finance its activities and free its prisoners".
He conceded that exceptions have been made in the past, such as with Mauritanian gendarme Ely Ould Moctar, who was kidnapped from Adel Bagrou in eastern Mauritania.
"I think that when political considerations force Mauritania or Algeria to pay a ransom or release radicals to avoid embarrassment, they don't find any obstacles to that," Ould Dedah said.
Meanwhile, analyst Mohammed Naji Ould Ahmedu said that MUJAO's demands place Algeria in particularly tight spot. Just a week ago, the country concluded a Maghreb seminar confirming the principle of "refusing to pay ransom to terrorists" and "refusing to swap imprisoned terrorists for hostages".
"Algerian officials have repeatedly confirmed the principle of refusing to pay ransom," Ould Ahmedu said.
He warned that abductions for ransom in the Gulf of Aden, the Indian Ocean, the African Sahel and other regions of the world "threaten the stability of those regions and international security".
Algeria's response will determine how other countries deal with this phenomenon in the future, Ould Ahemdu said.
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Africain 2012-6-26
To كمال الجزائري- The strategy of devastating the Sahel is part of the logic and extension of "the war led against the people of Libya"... The same hegemonic interests that are siphoning the resources of the Third World are restless today. Al-Qaeda is quite a convenient pretext! The presence of uranium is a curse for the Touareg people and the entire region.
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BACHIR 2012-6-24
Look at the value of the European individual how he is dear. His country pays for him any financial value for his life. As for Arab countries, they don’t pay even a cent firstly because hostages have no price for the actual ruler. But if the hostage is the son of an influential person and is known by the Algerian people, all Algeria would be paid for him not just money. But if he is the son of the people, he can be slain and we will recruit someone else instead of him.
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anonymous 2012-6-22
To Yacine- Forgive me. I told you that I was not an expert, but that does not mean that I am lobotomised! Everything that you told me I stored on my hard drive when I was at college. What I am asking you – since you said that you saw it coming – is who is next.
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هدى 2012-6-22
O Lord protect Algeria and all the countries!
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kharrous79 2012-6-20
In the name of God the most gracious the most merciful. Peace and blessings of God be upon the most honorable prophet, Mohamed, the honest, who was sent to all the people, upon those who followed them righteously in the Umma including preachers, the followers of the right path, the pious and righteous people, those who followed their way to the Day of Judgment. The Algerian people have dignity and pride. They are ready to protect their country any time. Anyone who thinks of destroying Algeria is wrong in his calculations. Thank you!
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aidon 2012-6-19
To Yacine- You remind me of the puppets in the Roman markets, criticising anything and everything!!! At least say what you think deep down! Radical Islamism is a danger to fight. That is all!
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كمال الجزائري 2012-6-17
In my opinion, I think no one can remove terrorists of Sahel except Touaregs themselves for many reasons. Firstly, the tribal formation of Touareg people including Arabs, Azawad and others. This activity is no longer for them a religious conviction. The issue of direct war is costly and useless. There should be a continuance in creating sedition elements between them while isolating the foreigner, reinforcing the internal, drafting the project of a society with logical horizons drives towards the emergence of some kind of dream, the war was imposed by others and we have to change its track. As for us they won’t don’t anything because we will pull them to the swamp which we want to make up a diplomatic issue, good start but it should not stop in the media. Some of them want alcohol, some of them want a cigarette, it is the feature of Touaregs who don’t want to be conservative will drive to our success. Al Qaeda will end where it wanted to strengthen itself. War is deceit, we know their ways for 21 years.
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africain 2012-6-16
The French Revolution of 1789 has all our affection, but it did not live long and the valiant revolutionary people of Paris were immediately scammed by the French bourgeoisie, who stole their revolution and have not stopped mimicking the aristocracy to this day. So, with the exception of the 90 days of the Paris Commune, the people of France have had a fast one pulled on them by the bourgeois, who rob them of their sovereignty and exploit them. How anti-slavery and anti-colonial were all these beautiful minds that are quoted – the philosophers and genius scholars like Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, etc.? The result is that the republic of today is the heir of its history, still tied by obscure lines to colonial culture, which is translated into Françafrique, which maintains a continent under its domination with a bonus of rhetoric for “humanitarianism”, “racism”, “aid”, “co-operation”, “support”, etc. Africans are treated as inferiors. It is in this lens that we need to analyse the Arab Spring and what is going on in Tunisia. God protect Tunisia, its authentic democracy and its patriots because this is now a matter of patriotism and national sovereignty, which are in danger. The Islamists are the enemy of the state’s sovereignty, which they are delivering to the raptor foreign monarchies and other accomplices.
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Roland Mercier - Bruge - Belgique. 2012-6-16
If the Algerian generals should authorise a military operation on the ground to free the seven Algerians diplomats kidnapped in Mali, this would be the start of a catastrophe in Mali and in the Sahel region. At this time, there are more than 15,000 elite para-commandoes positioned on the Algerian-Malian border ready to intervene. Beware! The stakes are high for the region. You should know what we are talking about here now.
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Yacine 2012-6-15
To Anonymous- Hello. You have my regards. I have nothing to explain to you about what happened in Libya since the results are there. The French courts will perhaps be able to give part of the explanation during the trial of Nicholas Sarkozy. The trial’s name will be “The Trial on the Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign financing by Kadhafi.” But, I invite you to read what I published on the Sykes-Picot accord, which France and the United Kingdom signed on May 16th, 1916 on Downing Street and which planned for the eventual carving up of the Middle East (that is, the area between the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean). –Stay strong!
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Anonymous 2012-6-13
Yacine, explain to us what happened in Libya. You saw it coming from what you say, but I do not understand all of your comments. I am not an expert like you. Whose turn is it going to be?
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DJ. 2012-6-13
To Yacine- There is no need to insult the intelligence of your interlocutor! I am using my good sense and, better than that, I am questioning the ideas imposed by Singular Thought and I do not take them for granted. The Western powers have their interests and do not hesitate to build all sorts of theories to suit them. That some of their intellectuals (Pascal Boniface’s “false intellectuals”) make themselves mules of this hegemonic ideology is disappointing, but that the intellectuals of the South make themselves mules of ideologies that lead to the ruin of their peoples is cretinism and intolerable treason. The intellectuals of the South are formatted by the education and media hype of the Northern Hemisphere. They are incapable of question the “givens” and the dogmas, which they are served like currency without examination. They are not intellectuals and are no better than these crooked and greedy “religious professionals”. The two have in common the fact that they are used against their peoples by these forces, which are hostile to the development of our countries. Democracy, for them, consists of putting people in power here who will be the must subjected to them. The Arab spring has shown this by stacking the deck against he basic rules of the democratic game. They have succeeded in climbing atop the government ejection seat of their obligors, whose road map is none other than mess up things in our country in order to further subjugate, rob and humiliate our peoples. On May 10th, 2012, the Algerian republicans once against saved the republic, Algeria, from the daemonic plan of these forces of evil, who will never give up on their exploitation of our resources, our brains and our peoples. Are our own people supposed to do the job for them? Have a little good sense.
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برّ أكّـــا كه 2012-6-12
The French revolution was the produce of ideas of philosophers and genius savants such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu and Dedrou. As for the Tunisian revolution, it also has a group of genius minds in superstition including Ghannouchi, Salafis and Atahrir party especially when they get help from his eminence and genius of circumciser of girls Wajdi Ghanim and the agent national democrat al-Qardaoui. Bless your soil Tunisia, how many rats you brought, and it is ongoing!
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Pueblo 2012-6-12
What its history, its culture, its religion or the civilisation to which it belongs, a people is a precious asset with immeasurable potential and infinite talent, genius and resources. A people is moreover the producer of wealth and the possessor of popular sovereignty, the only legitimacy that there is. No people can be qualified as stupid. They are subject to oppression by predatory forces that maintain them in poverty and illiteracy in order to exploit them and despoil them of their legitimate power. The Arab peoples – since each of their characteristics and their identity are not exempt from this reality and their religion is manipulated by anachronistic monarchical governments – are subject to Western imperialism. These people are maintained in obscurantism and backwardness by violence while they are despoiled of all of their rights. These forces of domination use religion through the ignorant and unscrupulous religious persons, who claim to “think” in place of the Muslims. They are incapable of the slightest thought, and their life is proof of this disaster. But, the majority of the citizens of these countries are not able to be manipulated by these perfidious characters. Therefore, other scams are invented such as the epidemic of the Arab spring, which is as false as is it devastating – supposed to be the bearer of “democracy” for the Arab and non-Arab peoples!?! So what are they getting themselves mixed up with??? As if these leaders and their masters have the slightest tie to democracy – the true power by the people and for the power!!! Revolutions – true ones – are the work of the people and none other! The “Arab spring” has replaced one dictatorship with another, worse one, for which the Islamists are a perfidious tool and subjected to imperialism.
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Yacine 2012-6-10
To DJ- Leave your heart and your nerves out of it and call upon your good sense. The CAC and your other references to the stock market have nothing to do with here. I did not speak about money. I simply wrote that Algeria – the people governing it – is incapable of eradicating terrorism. This is the reality. This has been verified on a daily basis since 1991 (with the attack on Guemmar in the wilaya of El Oued). I also wrote that terrorism will end up taking the upper hand and that the future will tell. I based my hypothesis on the fact that Algeria is a country in disrepair. It is incapable of defining a strategy because the people who are supposed to move things forward have not understood their era. In short, they are outmoded by the events. They did not understand what happened in Libya. They did not see anything coming. (Alas!!!) The same thing goes for what is going on in Mali, and it will be the same thing when Algeria’s turn comes. With regards to progress in Algeria, it is the country with the highest suicide rate, the dirtiest country in the world and security is completely lacking because of the lack of a legal system and even a state. Sick people are dying for lack of health care, university staff are paid 15,000 dinars (the salary of young people’s jobs). And with regards to you, the Berlin Wall has fallen. The Americans are investing in Vietnam. So, please, stop talking about prosperity in Algeria. This is h’ram. Let us hope that the young people will one day arrive in power and then, I will be on your side. Without this, it is cooked and irreversibly so. This is a shame for such a beautiful country. Can we talk about prosperity when there are bipeds like Belkhadem? This make me cry.
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Anonymous 2012-6-9
Anyone who doesn’t protect Algeria is not Algerian. This great state should be protected by all means. The first method is that the government shouldn’t leave any pretexts to those who speculate on it, agents of imperialism and impure Qataris. Most fire begins from the smallest spark.
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Anonymous 2012-6-9
The Arab people are very, very stupid. It has made religion a tool to destroy itself and a gate to infiltrate it by imperialism, Zionism and agents. Is it reasonable that we put hand in hand with the enemies to destroy our countries?
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DJ. 2012-6-9
To Femme- Madam, with all due respect, you are wrong! If I have abstained from commenting further on the words that you are completely right to qualify as misogynist, it is because it is up to you, the women, to correct it. My comment would have unfailingly been interpreted as paternalism in bad taste. Women are quite capable of responding to this sort of individual better than I would know how to do. For proof of my good faith, here is what I think of Yacine’s words: he is a misogynist, vulgar and out of line. I am shocked that I man would indulge in such lack of control when the subject and the circumstance cannot under any circumstances justify it since misogyny is never justifiable! Yacine, thinking he was addressing a woman, was not able to engage in the debate normally. He thought he was entitled to attack the person of his interlocutor, not his arguments. This behaviour is unacceptable! But, I would add that Yacine was running out of arguments and trying to make a diversion by displacing the discussion to a completely different field – a slippery, unhealthy and unworthy one. So, forgive me, madam, for my attitude. If you judge this discussable, then be assured that these were good intentions on my party. Misogyny is gregarious racism as old as the world and a pathology of the mind, which needs to be denounce and from which our youngest need to be protected through healthy education, wherein everyone is judged for what they do or for his ideas, not for what he is (namely, his gender, male or female). –Yours sincerely madam.
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Anonymous 2012-6-8
If crookedness is the feature of times, don’t aspire to moderation.
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تونسي 2012-6-8
Arab society is idle. It is drowned in superstition and naivety far from reason. Even the “rational” are in turn without reason because they didn’t respect what should be respected including the origins of the people, their culture and sanctities. (Tawfik Ben Brik the mean). We are in the most complicated problem because of failure to use reason and listen to opinion. We are idle people governed by moods and whims.
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نورالدين لكحل 2012-6-8
Sedition is sleeping, God’s curse on those who stir it!
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Femme 2012-6-7
To Yacine- “… someone with the mind of a young girl, used to being dominated by her lovers..” What is with this verbal slip that you had here? This is more than the usual machismo; it is misogyny! This is the behavior of a boor! It is disgusting! DJ is indeed a man, and he was not indignant at the baseness of your words.
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Djelfaoui 2012-6-7
To Dmil3- Your non-sens is what we do not care about!!! You address Bouteflika – a politician of value, a valorous diplomat, respect and he has the complete confidence of the vast majority of his people – to tell him what to do? You are suited for a straightjacket and you have rushed your papers for it! At the time of the battle, there are those who say “Forward! Follow me!” and there are those who shout “Go on ahead! I am following you!” You are from the latter.
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AISSA.MEGHICHE 2012-6-7
It seems that Youssef isn’t Algerian and doesn’t know the Algerian army according to his speculations. Our army is just a guard on road standing in barracks. Just try or tell your peolpe to try and you will find the reply.
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mère algérienne 2012-6-7
I address all of my prayers to God Almight so that these seven Algerian hostages will be freed safe and unharmed!!!
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تونسي 2012-6-6
Everyone should know that “Islamists” are sick people in the full meaning of the word. Imperialist circles are using this ailment and taming it to reach its goal. One time it destroys, another time it makes a “revolution”, another time it kills a leader, another time it eliminates an intellectual and so on. They are Darawish of imperialism, God’s curse on them!
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Real-politic 2012-6-6
Be a bit realistic! No state will survive the law of the jungle, which the powerful impose on them without any means for self-protection or self-defence no matter the state’s information services. The domestic and foreign information services of the powerful states are hyper developed, over-financed and engage in activities that the republic does not want to know and which they strangely accommodate while reproaching our states for what is in comparison only trifles. Get some documentation on these famous “co-operation services” and other appellations. These agents have to get their salary one the official State Department’s list. By always targeting Algeria – and never for good reasons – you are showing your hand.
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DJ. 2012-6-6
[2] (the USA and the countries of the EU). The indignant are taking to the streets in a gigantic movement to contest this and are eluding all control from the powers in place (parties and unions) in all the states of the North from Madrid to Tel Aviv to New York. The discontent is growing because of the excesses of authoritarian globalised capitalism, which is challenging the social gains of the lower classes and retirees, is degrading the general living conditions. Young people, who discover that they are worse position than their parents, whom they depend on, are in despair. They have too many degrees and are unemployed or in precarious job situations. Unemployment is threatening all social strata: the seniors; the women, who continue to be particularly discriminated against with their salaries (up to 25% lower); the delocalisation of production; the closure of businesses; the pauperisation of social classes, including the middle classes; the insolent enrichment of the rich with an increase of 30% in the CAC 40 shareholders’ profits. I could continue on the brutal hegemonic policies led by these states on the peoples of the Southern Hemisphere and so on. Why would you want us to take such a fiasco as a model? The insolvency is in the North, where it is taking place right now, and the South will be the one to pay because this anti-model lives at the detriment of the interests of the countries of the South, whose resources they siphon, and create chaos to maintain them under domination. Algeria is doing as well as possible in this hostile and agitated context. Review your basics before you push your Northern propaganda on us in the guise of an analysis. Do not take us for baboons. Western interference cannot offer anything to our countries – not for the fight against terrorist or anything else!
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hazim 2012-6-6
The national army should intervene and attack terrorist sites even if they had to sacrifice the hostages to make them know that Algeria doesn’t and won’t accept any threat of any kind. The Algerian intelligence must show us its professionalism and locate hostages as it has become necessary to make a change otherwise the status and prestige of Algeria will be lost. You should recruit young people of the South as they know better Mali and its people in order to find for the army the location of the kidnappers. The army must, must intervene regardless of the results.
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DJ. 2012-6-6
To Yacine- Yes, there you have it already: you definitely lost the bet and you will lose all the others because you do not have the correct angle of approach to the issue of terrorism in the Sahel. You serve us the Westerners’ re-heated soup. Apparently, you are off the mark. You will not fool the Algerians with your big shoes. You go through all your gymnastics just to tell us that Algeria is not able to face this and the other countries of the region are not either, so foreign intervention is necessary. It is not necessary to be an expert to churn out this stupidity, but it suffices just to servilely repeat Western discourse. I got this from your very first comments on the issue. You serve us the couplet of “Algeria is in a state of advanced decomposition.” You need to use your critical mind, not swallow everything that comes from the Northern Hemisphere like that. You are going to find that you are unknowingly (or not) doing hegemonic propaganda. Algeria is not in advanced decomposition except in the fantasies of these hegemonic interests. Quite the contrary, this country has no excessive foreign debt and is on the path of democratic construction according to its own model and rhythm and in spite of illegitimate foreign interference, which have nothing to do with democracy. The level of education is rising, civic-mindedness is progressing, the press is free and pluralistic, the freedom of association exists, the number of political parties bears witness to this, and civil society’s associations are consolidating. What the experts of the both the South and the North are, in fact, pointing out is the critical international situation, due to the most serious systematic crisis of global capitalism since 1929. Putting finances on auto-pilot is in the process of leading the states of the North to true bankruptcy with the exorbitant foreign debt of these countries …
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dmil3 2012-6-6
If our country really wanted to intervene in Mali, it would have done so long ago. It boasts of having super commandos, trained super soldiers, super police and gendarmes, so why wait??? We even have the advantage of being helped by our American friends’ drones. May we crush these terrorist vermin. Mr Bouteflika, all of the Algerian people are with you, and know that we do not care about the reactions from other countries or even the UN when it comes to defending the integrity of our Algeria and liberating our compatriots and, especially, our diplomats.
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Lady 2012-6-4
To Yacine- Your contemptuous tone when you thing you are addressing a women proves your contempt for women. This is pathetic!
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mimi 2012-6-3
These are just words.
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Yacine 2012-6-2
Continuation- … and I hope from the bottom of my heart that the seven employees from the consulate in Gao as well as the other Western hostages will return to their loved ones as soon as possible. As for Algeria, its situation is truly disquieting because the risk of secession is knocking on its door and it does not have the human or material means to face it. Keep up the good work, Madam, and try, Madam, to enrich the debate on terrorism in the Sahel and its consequences on West Africa, North Africa and the northern coast of the Mediterranean instead of concentrating on your small insults of my person. -Sincerely
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Yacine 2012-6-2
To Younsi Djamel- In my contributions, I above all else denounce the incapability of our leaders and their accesories to evaluate the threat and, more especially, face it. Behind as they are, they continue to thing that “they” represent something on the regional and international political play field. But, the ordinary people know that Algeria is a country in an advanced state of decomposition. Only the blind refuse to admit this. Miss DJ left a comment starting with “The emeritus strategies of the anti-terrorist fight in the Sahel leave little to the imagination in all this macabre adventure.” She has set herself up as – excuse the expression – headmistress of the colonial school, overcome by time and place. Analysing her second contribution confirms that she is indeed a young girl or, in any case, someone with the mind of a young girl, used to being dominated by her lovers and who moreover has nothing to offer when it comes to enriching the debate on the issue of instability in the Sahel. As for the question “Where do I work?”, the answer is simple, I teach and now I have enough time to write. As for the allusion to sport and music, I think I know about military security, which is an accessory to mediocrity par excellence. As for Anonymous, I leave you to take responsibility for your own writings because you are an artist at diverting debates, and that is a great step towards making things mediocre. As for democracy, this is a concept that behoves you. For proof, re-read what you posted and ask the question “Am I ready to accept contradictory arguments?” As for me, I have thought for the two officials assassinated in Iraq … To be continued (because of lack of space).
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Ibn Souria 2012-5-31
Leave Algeria in peace! Mind your own business, Algeria is able to manage its own. Go do some reports on the ground in Syria about what is going on there, about how the savage hordes financed by Qatari and Saudi petrodollars are murdering the people in Syria and want to destroy Syria. Who is benefiting from the crime? It is still, as always, the same ones. Your formatted brains do not understand all of this, alas! So, the best thing to do is shut up! God protect Syria from these vampires.
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Algérien Fier 2012-5-31
To the useful idiot who said that Algeria is “at the bottom of the rubbish bin”, if you do not find this country to your taste, no one is keeping you here! Go beg for a visa and take a one-way trip! This country is borne with dignity by nearly 40 million men and women, not to mention our dear and precious diaspora, which is ready for all sacrifices. So, bon voyage! Go join your models and your thought masters. You will not be missed by these rebellious people, to whom you have no lessons to give. And you clearly cannot offer anything to them, given that you yielded to the enemy camp, or this country, which needs proud patriots, which have respect for themselves and for what they are and for their identity, not weaklings, people with inferiority complexes and adorers of the mirage of the North. Oh yes! These people are their own model and make their own path regardless of the known propaganda relayed by all the people frustrated and embittered by history. These unique people said on May 10th, 2012, keep your buffoonery of the Arab spring to yourself! Manipulating that which is Holy for base interests in power and money is unacceptable for these valorous people, which have a lot to say to their detractors!!! May God Almighty help the brother peoples who have been betrayed by these villainous manipulations, which are a tragic result of (dirty) money, which is the sinews of war, and of the daemonic play for the domination of the Arab and non-Arab Muslim peoples of Africa and of the Third World in general. The stakes for our countries and our peoples is today none other than to survive hegemonic globalization, which aims to impose its brutal, inhumane capitalist system on the entire planet and beyond! The Arab spring offensive all ended up as fundamentalist winters, which are only an expression of this insidious and murderous hegemony.
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DJ. 2012-5-31
[2] Continuation to Yassine- This ferocious capitalist system must, to some degree, pull a fast one on the public’s opinion, since, if it did not, it would have to get ready for its Great Day of Revolution and some dark mornings in its future. That is what will inevitably happen. History is implacable. No empire lasts! Where is Rome? The people who think they are capable of giving lessons in strategy to the Algerian leaders should start by doing a pertinent analysis and then opening their mouths. May God Almighty save the Algerian hostages. I sympathize with their families and I hope they remain patient. These are people who were doing their duty and serving their nation and people. They deserve our respect and recognition. The theses of the Northern Hemisphere is not our holy book or etched in stone; they deserve careful examination, and for good reason! One forum-goer said, “Empty barrels make the most noise!”
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قضهس 2012-5-30
This is an internal affair which concerns the state of Mali alone. Algeria and its valiant army are sleepless eyes and are not inattentive about what happens in the region or on borders. No one can push the country in the affairs of others as does the Moroccan army in Western Sahara. The writer of this article doesn’t know Algeria, Algerian policy and the Algerian army which gave lessons in the past and recent history. No one can tell us what to do. We know what is good for us. Viva Algeria my son!
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Amazigh 2012-5-30
Is this really the place to debate the anti-terrorist strategy in the Sahel? Do you have the qualifications and the skills to do this? So then what is this about – insulting and slandering Algeria? Well other people are doing this job quite well and they have every interest in doing this, so what good is there in adding your barking? What is your problem exactly? Are you collaborating on the job to destabilise the region? This is just stupidity! There are really some people who take themselves too seriously if they think they are debating the subject usefully. You might as well ask the concerned authorities to come reveal their strategic secrets to everyone like perfume so that no one feels surprised, is that not so? What side are you on? You are furiously and grossly delirious! Take your likes for birdbrains and you will have some surprises!!!
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DJ. 2012-5-30
Continuation- This ferocious capitalist system must, to some degree, pull a fast one on the public’s opinion, since, if it did not, it would have to get ready for its Great Day of Revolution and some dark mornings in its future. That is what will inevitably happen. History is implacable. No empire lasts! Where is Rome? The people who think they are capable of giving lessons in strategy to the Algerian leaders should start by doing a pertinent analysis and then opening their mouths. May God Almighty save the Algerian hostages. I sympathise wither their families and I hope the remain patient. These are people who were doing their duty and serving their nation and people. They deserve our respect. One forum-goer wrote, “A hollow barrel makes the most ruckus!” I am not bitter, my brother! –Salam alaikoum!
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DJ. 2012-5-30
[1] To Yacine- Here is one bet that you have definitely lost. I am a man, not a “chick” (as you said), and I do not see what being a chick would change, except your frankly macho tone, which a few readers have apparently not failed to notice. Let’s get to the point! All properly diagnosed evils will benefit, in principle, from appropriate treatment, but that does not meant the healing is guaranteed. What is Yacine suffering from? God alone knows! His complaints strangely make you think about the well-greased speech of certain circles, which impose Singular Thought on the world. As I see it, this is useful for their geo-strategic interests, which are indefensible from the view of international law, and even less so from basic morality. In order to be credible regarding a valid strategy to deploy in order to curb a scourge like the one in question, it is moreover necessary to be able to do objective analysis and not content yourself with endorsing the “politically correct” thesis, which is as fallacious as it is incorrect. It is no accident that the Algerians are held hostage by these criminals in the service of the same people, who continue to think that the entire world is their private hunting ground and that it suffices to smoke up the public a bit, which is becoming more and more feverish. Must he be reminded that they do not consider the Humanity of the South to be an entity to take into consideration. Their city centres and streets are always full day and night of the power and so very legitimate contestations of the “indignant”, who are denouncing loud and clear the excesses of this globalisation, which eats up men and crushes human lives in the South like a bulldozer pulverises the ants on his path without conscience! To be continued.
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younsi djamel 2012-5-30
How did Yacine know that DJ is a lady??? You did not answer me or post my question to Yacine to clear this up for me. Unless, of course, you are in cahoots with Anonymous!
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younsi djamel 2012-5-29
To Yacine- Tell me, how did you know that DJ is a lady or a Miss DJ when it this is not indicated anywhere? Do you work in Algerian sport and music, **M 16.5** or with the anonymous persons of the Internet, Anonymous???
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Charles Stone 2012-5-28
To Yacine- There is no point in betting on things that are outside of our will. In effect, the MUJAO terrorists are bluffing. Their threats are without immediate effect. This actually reflects that inability to live up to their threats and their despair at constantly being targeted by the Algerian army, which is present in force in the region. The terrorists’ morale has been run down and the military losses inflicted on them by the Algerian army are constantly increasing.
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Abou ali 2012-5-26
I pose this question to the Islamists: If it is true that the jihadists are going to go to Heaven, then why are they still hidden like rats holes??? Why do they not come out of these holes and wage ware directly against the soldiers and meet their end so that they can die and go to Heaven faster? These charlatans are just thugs. Bin laden already showed that he was afraid to die in front of them because all of their rhetoric is just garble. No Islamist can understand the Qur’an. These thugs only know how to kill. But, going to Heaven is not guaranteed. So, young people, beware of the Islamist. In order to go to Heaven you must not kill or kidnap people and do stupid things. Only people who are faithful to Allah and follow the good path will have a right to go to Heaven. The rest will be in Hell.
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Yacine 2012-5-25
To Miss DJ- In the four and a half lines that you posted, I deduce that – until proven otherwise – you are a chick who is well off somewhere in the periphery. What is more, you seem to belong to a small circle that thinks they know everything and has knowledge. But know, Miss DJ, that it is precisely these “who am I” circles with their limited perspective and base aims that have lead the country to where it is – at the bottom of a rubbish bin. Today, there are seven Algerians who have been held hostage by terrorists for more than 50 days a few kilometres from our border in the South. There is no sign of hope for them and this is making us sick. This is making us sick because the responsibility for this has not been assumed and now one has been punished or, at least, resigned from office. This is making us sick because the average person knows that there are many possibilities to free them or acquire their release. How long are we going to suffer (tolerate) this mediocrity and cowardice? Where are the men of the past, who freed foreign hostages who were abducted by Palestinians, Iranians and others? I hope from the bottom of my hear that the families of the hostages and the people will go out on the street to demand the return of the employees of Algeria’s consulate in Gao. This is called an action strategy, Miss DJ. So, please, read and try to get something from it, and shut up – or continue thinking and spending your summertime, including Ramadhan. -Sincerely
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Yacine 2012-5-25
On May 24, the news agencies reported a statement from the chief terrorist, Droukdel, which was republished by the Mauritanian agency/website Sahara News. The statement, as released by the AFP, deserves to be reported because it demonstrated, on the one hand, that Droukdel, the head of AQIM, seems to have difficulty communicating directly with his men deployed in the Sahel (Katibet El Moulathimoune and Katibet Tarek Ibn Ziad). On the other hand, he recommends that his follower leave the management of the territory to Ansar Eddine and the MNLA and take back up their “global jihadist” activities. This latter call sounds like a whistle sounding the end of recess for the AQIM terrorists, who were swept away in euphoria at their victory over the Malian army or, at least, what was left of it. This leads us to believe that AQIM will not delay in launching attacks on facilities located in its favourite territories: Algeria and Mauritania. Ramadhan is approaching and future will tell us if we got it right or not.
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مسعود عبدالمالكء 2012-5-24
May God protect the country from oppressors and the deviant who thought that Jihad is the way to paradise by killing and shedding blood in the Arab world without noticing that they have taken the wrong way to the abyss. They turned their backs to Jerusalem and the recommendation of the noble prophet. Viva Algeria the country of men!
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CHK 2012-5-24
The most important thing in this story is to ask: Why this region and why now? The answer to this question is concrete proof that all the movements in the Sahel region have become highly strategic and are the fruit of Western powers and their pressure groups (MUJAO, AQIM, Azawad and so on) in order to justify a military presence in the region and, therefore, control the exploitation of the Sahel countries’ raw materials. These countries are more and more on the path to destabilisation thanks to France’s and the US’s services. So, they do not play this game with us Algerians. We have already paid for understanding this equation. As the saying goes here, “He who wants to eat meat only needs to marry his mother.”
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amel 2012-5-23
Instead of joining hands and efforts in order to clean Arab countries from terrorism, you are wishing catastrophes for Algeria. O Lord turn the plot of plotters against them! O Lord protect our country and keep enemies away from it! Viva Algeria!
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Akhamok 2012-5-23
The Algerian regime is the cause of all catastrophes in the North of Mali. Why doesn’t leave Malians run their own affairs? It is the Algerian Intelligence which made the first nucleus of Al Qaeda or “the so-called Al Qaeda”. Many Malians and Mauritanians of Arab origins became Algerian nationals in ways known in all provinces of the south especially Adrar and Tamanrasset. They are used by Algerian intelligence to destroy Sahel states. Most of them practice smuggling of different illegal items including arms and drugs. They are known in these provinces. No one of the native residents of the region can talk about them. Stop deceit o intelligence! Everything is uncovered today! You know better the numerous tribes which penetrated the south provinces and you deal with them openly in broad daylight.
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تونسي 2012-5-23
I am Tunisian. I respect and love my second country Algeria. My respect grew even more after the elections. Algerians have shown that they are intelligent and can’t be deceived by the absurdity of Darawish who in reality don’t worship God. They worship power and money. To be sure even more, look at what Ennahda did in Tunisia a few years ago: it claimed compensations of 750 million dollars for its supporters (or for some others than them, and they are a minority compared to them), compensation for prison years. They don’t believe in Jihad for the cause of God. They are paid promoters who believe only in life. Their real hidden slogan: there is no God and life is material!!! This is how funds of the poor miserable Tunisian people are distributed between the impure Khwanjia. This one 25 thousand dollars, the other 50 and the other 75. Ennahda party is a big hypocrite. I will give you an example. On the one hand it feigns not to recognize Takfirist extremist parties and doesn’t give them a license. On the other hand, it gathers with them in big festivals (hailing ‘there is no other God but Allah’, ‘God is the greatest’, Darwasha and absurdity). This is what happened a few days ago in Kairaouan under the banner “supporters of sharia”. It was a meeting which gathered about 5000 ignoramus, terrorist, backward and medieval. They were all raising the same extremist slogans. They shamelessly threatened and menaced the Tunisian society. However, what attracts attention in that ignorant meeting is that they didn’t lift a single Tunisian flag. They were all pre-Islamic flags (God, the messenger of God!!!), including Ennahda, which is in power and which should rather lift the national flag!!! These people represent the project of calamity, ignorance, terrorism and hatred to all Maghreb and human societies. Again, I thank the valiant Algerian people who rejected these primitives. (My words don’t mean that I reject Islam. Islam is innocent. They use it like a ride just as a robber uses a white horse to steal and kill without being seen by anyone). Viva great Algeria!
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DJ. 2012-5-23
Gentlemen- The emeritus strategies of the anti-terrorist fight in the Sahel leave little to the imagination in all this macabre adventure. Do not reveal everything! A fighting strategy is only worth the analysis of the phenomenon itself. The analysis of the dominant circles, which you take up on your own account, are questionable! That is the least we can say. The ones who are proposing the treatment are the ones who created the virus? What credibility!
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عادم سليمان 2012-5-22
Algeria is the country of a million and half a million martyrs. It will remain the first and most powerful in the region thanks to its wise men. Viva Algeria!
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mohamed chaoui 2012-5-21
My dear brother, unfortunately, you are putting an end to your media career by publishing such a topic because you are crossing the red lines. You were a victim among groups which are seeking to disfigure the image of Algeria domestically and internationally by sowing such deceptions and suspicions. With my respects to the freedom of the Maghreb media.
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محمد 2012-5-21
Salam alikum. I don’t know which Arab Maghreb you are talking about while you are following this sedition. Algeria is purer than being discussed by you.
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cochise 2012-5-20
To Yacine- In my opinion, you are exaggerating a bit. Okay, there are certainly gaps, but you we are supposed to hands down wash this out as a huge rift? You remind of they time when – I don’t know by what miracle – the commanders asked our opinion on this subject and what we thought were the best solution. We were lowly soldiers without the right to give the slightest opinion or to think (since they retorted that it was up to the boss to think and have opinions). At that time, we proposed sending small helicopter units along our border (including the northern border). The units were supposed to work in close co-operation with the ground units in order to intervene at the slightest signal. I tell you this because it was 20 or more years ago. The officer looked quite down on us (as usual). “Can you imagine the number of helicopters we would have to mobilise to make our borders impermeable?” You better keep it under your hat that these machines are used elsewhere used to guard troops.
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nadhi 2012-5-20
Viva Algeria!
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Yacine 2012-5-19
To Younsi Djamel- You have my online friendship. Without any pretention and without wanting to offend anyone and with pragmatism and good knowledge of the region and the terrorist groups that are rampant there, I tell you that the antiterrorist fight in a region like the Sahel necessitates as a minimum: firstly, clear political will; secondly, adequate material and human resources; thirdly, efficient information services; fourthly, an effective diplomatic apparatus in harmony with the community and international law; fifthly, a well-oiled chain of command; sixthly, flawless popular support. This would be the minimum. Can Algeria get all this together? I will leave it to you to guess. Just one detail, however: the antiterrorist fight in the Sahel necessitates that engagement of a pre-emptive war strategy. (Something that Algeria has never been able to do.) This strategy means striking hard and striking far and without pity. In order to engage in this, we need precise information and ultra-trained and ultra-equipped commando units. It cannot be engaged in in Kabylie. How could they engage in this in the Sahel’s desert or in the Ifoghas’ (Tigharghars’) Adrar Mountains? Heavy weaponry like tanks are ineffective. The same goes for bombardments with MIGs and Sukhois. It would take an entire article to make you understand, but, alas, I do not have enough space. NATO is going to leave Afghanistan and the Taliban is going to return to power in Kabul. Algeria going to the Sahel would be a real quagmire. Leave your heart out of it, Mr Younsi, and try to think with your head. -Thank you for reading and see you soon
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Anonymous 2012-5-17
Add the seven hostages to the list of 200,000 deaths. That is all.
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faouaz 2012-5-16
May God protect us from them! May God not grant them success!
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سمير 2012-5-16
The Algerian army should intervene.
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younsi djamel 2012-5-15
To Yacine- I’ll bet you that the Algerian People’s National Army is still going to beat down and destroy these MUJAO people by the thousands and that they will never dare get near our border without getting their noses broken.
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Chahine 2012-5-11
Yes, Jalil, this is very interesting.
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Anonymous 2012-5-9
It is time for Algeria to attack northern Mali and put an end to these vermin; otherwise, they are going to attract vermin from all over the world. Attack with all our means and without mercy. The world will applaud. No country would be sad for these Al Qaeda dogs. It is time to put an end to them. The Americans and the French are not ready to start, so go on then, soldiers, test your weapons on this idiots, who use religion for their aims. The bastards from the GSP and MUJAO and other groups are idiots who are killing innocent people.To Hell with you infidels!
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le fou 2012-5-9
A terrorist is a terrorist. Whether you pay the ransom or not, they will continue their dirty work.
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JALIL 2012-5-9
Originally, in France, being a secular meant any person who was a non-member of the Catholic clergy (a monk or a priest). After the French Revolution of 1789, supporters of secularism began their fight against the religious elites’ (particularly the Catholic Church’s) stranglehold on politics, the economy, education and teaching. So, what can be said in this regard about the French historical period in Algeria or outside of France? For societies in the Muslim world, this term is used to designate a support of a social system founded and operating on the image of current Western societies (societies whose model and whose ethical and political values are in the process of becoming universals). And since this model places human freedoms and tolerance for differences at the top of the agenda, religion is left to personal sphere of each person. As such, believes are not repressed or banned. On the contrary, they are protected from each other. As for the term “Islamist”, it is a neologism in French and other languages. The truth is that is a real political scam in Arabic because “Islamiy” simply means a person with the quality of being Muslim. It is still monopolised on by political movements aspiring to govern this and that people according to their moral values from Islam and to reproduce a socio-political model from the past, which they take for that of the “original” Islam.
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Bekhouche Driss 2012-5-8
I am happy that Algeria has categorically refused to pay ransoms to these criminal bandits, who are destroying our countries and destabilising them! I ask the President of the Republic, His Excellency, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, to send after them our valiant soldiers, the descendants of the National Liberation Army, in order to crush them forever and rid us of these vermin, whatever the price! Stop wasting some of our diplomats on them! They will be martyrs. (Valorous martyrs like their predecessors!) Long live Algeria, strong and united in the worst and in the best with our valiant leader of the Algerian Armed Forces Abdelaziz Bouteflika at their lead!
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ammar 2012-5-8
The Algerian army should intervene in order to liberate kidnapped diplomats.
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Noury 2012-5-8
Refusal to pay ransom is the only valid principled position against terrorism, which uses kidnapping as a source of funding. This is obvious, but this position cannot work if it is not respected by all partiers. Westerners have long breached this strategy, which they have never applied for their citizens. Are their lives worth more than those of non-Westerners? Is the doublespeak of these states a secret? What message are these states sending to terrorists groups and, therefore, what is their real position towards them? The African peoples have delivered so many pertinent answers to these questions and these answers have been, in any case, more realistic than the rants of “handpicked experts”, who purr gently, but have nothing to teach us.
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Yacine 2012-5-7
“Sahel terrorists warn of Algeria attacks” – this title is catchy, but the question that it should be asked is: “Can Algeria effectively face the possible large attacks from terrorists in the South? The answer, as I see it, is no. It is “no” because at the level of the military, Algeria does not have light and mobile combat units adapted to desert guerrilla warfare. It is “no” because Algeria is a big jungle of bureaucracy and in order to make a decision, you need to wait six months. It is “no” because Algeria does not seem to be aware of the threat in the south. It is “no” because Algeria has no effective role in this region and continues to act alone without even clearly defining its objective or, at least, choosing the role it wants to play. It is “no” because the towns in Algeria’s extreme South are so remote that logistical organisation risks posing a serious tactical problem. So, my question did not deserve to be asked because the real question is: “When and where are they going to strike?” or, rather, “What is the city that they are going to occupy, even if only for a day)? Is it Zaouatine? Bordje Badji Mokhtar? Ain Azoua? Or straight-up Reggane or tamanrasset?” And Algeria will not be able to do anything. I bet on it.
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