The Algerian daily Echourouk El Youmi, a big-circulation private newspaper with ties to Algerian intelligence, the DRS, has just published the reputed confession of one of the terrorists involved in last week’s Amenas oil hostage-taking. He is said to be Abu...
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Confessions of an Amenas hostage-taker
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Algeria’s Hidden Hand
The United States is deeply involved with a key Muslim partner in the struggle against jihadist terrorism. Although the relationship between the countries is superficially robust, encompassing years of military and intelligence cooperation and bolstered by American financial support, the...
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Austria votes to keep conscription
This weekend, in a national referendum, a strong majority – 60 percent – of Austrians have voted to keep conscription, meaning that the small Alpine republic will be one of the few European Union states to continue with the draft...
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The Lessons of Mali
Considering the French operation to defeat – or at least blunt – the jihad in Mali has only just begun, and the outcome remains impossible to discern, it seems premature to ponder “lessons” just yet. Not least because the U.S....
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Kurdish Whodunit
Last night someone killed three top emigre leaders of the Kurdish movement in France. The victims, all women, who were found shot, execution-style, included Sakine Cansiz, a noted Kurdish politico, and one of the founders of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party...