22/01/2013
What the Osama bin Laden raid discovered on al-Qaeda's links in Algeria
p/pThe disaster in Algeria this week began when militants seized a remote, multinational gas complex in the desert and ended when the Algerian military staged a guns-blazing "rescue" attempt. Dozens of hostages were killed. But Algeria's a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/algerias-history-as-birthplace-of-many-north-african-islamist-extremists/2013/01/17/b4a04248-60c2-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_story.html"underlying crisis of militancy and extremism/a, much like the national security concerns it is prompting in the United States, has been going on for years. It's that larger crisis that really matters, and the unanswered questions about its nature and threat to the United States often boil down to one very complicated question: What is the role of al-Qaeda?/pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/what-the-osama-bin-laden-raid-discovered-on-al-qaedas-links-in-algeria/2013/01/22/36a76286-6487-11e2-889b-f23c246aa446_blog.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/27c5fc14/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/155984191363/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/27c5fc14/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/155984191363/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/27c5fc14/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/155984191363/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/27c5fc14/a2t.img" border="0"/
