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Military crackdowns and amnesty offers had reduced Algeria‘s jihadists to a fading organization of fighters holed up in rural hideouts. Many of the remaining holdouts retreated to the mountainous Kabylia region east of Algiers to regroup, thus repeating a pattern seen in Algeria throughout the ages… More>>
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Kabylia is a formidable mountainous region just east of Algiers. Its isolated mountains have provided safe haven for the local Berbers for centuries making it a difficult place for foreign occupiers to fully penetrate. Its cave rich landscape provides ideal cover from which to launch a guerrilla insurgency or to hold off an advancing army… More>>
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Today’s Times has a story about the relative calm in Algeria during the recent political contagion sweeping North Africa and the Middle East. It’s a bit surprising considering Algeria’s violent history since the end of WWII…More>>
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Tagged Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria, Algiers, Islamic terrorism, Middle East
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