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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (277)	11/15/2001 6:38:24 PM
From: RocketMan	Respond to of 32591

French Detain Algerian Militants Say Men May Have Plotted Terror Attack On Big Soccer Game Total Of Nine Jailed In France After Sept. 11 Attacks Exact Reasons For Latest Arrests Remain Unclear cbsnews.com Haim, this is an old story (6 Oct), but it illustrates a few things, which I'm sure you know. One, arab extremism is never appeased. I was living in France in 62 when Algeria won its independence, and there was the threat of a right-wing coup in France. Now here we are almost 40 years later, and the independent Algerian republic has become a nest of terrorism against the nation that it won its freedom from, and uses that nation as a way to attack the US. Two, one can never do a half hearted attempt at taking apart terrorist networks. Like cancer, just one cell will keep growing. As the story says, "The suspects had been questioned in 1994 when police began dismantling a support network for the Armed Islamic Group, or GIA, the police sources said. The dismantling of the so-called Chalabi network, named for its leader Mohamed Chalabi, culminated in a November 1998 trial of 138 defendants in a prison gym outside Paris. Nearly 100 defendants were convicted of taking part in the network, which sent arms to the GIA, radical Muslim insurgents, and provided false identity documents, lodging in France and other support for insurgents. " Three, we have been understimating the Algerian role in islamic terrorism: The newspaper Le Monde reported Saturday that among the four detained was Nasreddine Mamache, currently on trial along with 23 others for allegedly belonging to a support network for the Armed Islamic Group, radical Algerian insurgents.