APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East articles from January 2005

APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East archives from January 2005

ALGERIA - The Challenges Of Terrorism.(Editorial)
January 31, 2005... Editor's Note: This is a new survey of Middle East/North African (MENA) countries being serialised through SBME volumes 49-52 in 2005 and 2006. The countries, to include Iran and Israel, will be presented in alphabetical order, starting with...

ALGERIA - The Algerian Model.
January 31, 2005... Military-backed governments in Algeria have, since early 1992, turned a deaf ear to Western calls for respect for the human rights of the Salafi militants. As the jihadists had no respect for the human rights of the people, these governments...

ALGERIA - The Mubarak Model.(Brief Article)
January 31, 2005... Algeria was the first major Arab country to be attacked by Islamist terrorists on a large scale. It is the second to defeat them, next to Egypt where the Gama'a Islamiya Salafis have since the late 1990s ceased their armed jihad. The Egyptian...

ALGERIA - Lessons For Iraq.(Brief Article)
January 31, 2005... The Algerian experience holds many lessons for Iraq today. As Taheri put it: "The terrorist insurgents operating in Iraq pursue the same strategy as their Algerian colleagues in the 1990s. Zarqawi and other terror chiefs are also trying to...

ALGERIA - US Help.(Brief Article)
January 31, 2005... It is not clear whether the US monitored the Salafi insurgency in Algeria as closely as it should before it invaded in Iraq in March 2003. But judging by Seymour Hersh's report - "The Coming Wars" - published on Jan. 17, 2005, by The New...