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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (87137)	3/28/2003 9:53:51 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Why are the Algerians still irritated at the French? They kicked the French out of Algeria a long time ago. Or was this the immigrants? Not Algerians in general, the Islamists who were waging a civil war against the authoritarian regime that replaced the French and which the French supported more than the Islamist extremists. There was the famous "one man, one vote, one time" election where the FIS (Front Islamique du Salut, Islamist party) won the popular vote and the Algerian government annulled the elections, presumably because the FIS would have put in an Islamic theocracy and it would be the last "election" in the country. There's some truth to that, but it's a bit banana republic to hold an election whose results will only be admitted if it pleases the people in power. Realistically, some of the terrorism within Algeria had to do with mafia type operations, the kind of thing that always thrives in a vacuum of legitimate government, but they did some disgusting things. I saw a photo of some school kids heads in a bucket after one of their attacks in a village, their goal was to bring the government down one way or another and anything went.