Algeria: paralyzed by fear. (Current Affairs)

The Middle East | April 1, 1994 | Copyright

Algerian is rapidly disintegrating in an atmosphere of escalating violence and widespread panic. In large areas of the country, including many towns, effective power has already passed to the Islamic fundamentalists. Yet faced with open rebellion, the government is doing nothing. Has it a secret and subtle strategy, or is it simply paralysed by the increasingly likely prospect that Algeria is about to become North Africa's Iran?

THE ATTACK on 10 March by over 150 fundamentalist militants on a jail at Tazult near Batna in eastern Algerian -- with insider help -- that ...

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