25/01/2013
Algeria, lost in translation
pThe North African country of Algeria, a former French colony that endured an awful civil war in the 1990s, doesn't make it into the English-language news as often as its neighbors. Unlike Iraq or Egypt, its history, and how that history shapes the country today, is just a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/algerias-secrets-obscure-the-war-on-terror-in-the-sahara"not as well known/a among Americans. And that can make it tougher to understand developments there such as the recent hostage crisis, much less the underlying puzzle of militant groups and extremist ideologies that appears to link the hostage-takers back to al-Qaeda./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/algeria-lost-in-translation/2013/01/25/76333d14-6700-11e2-889b-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/27e5bdb5/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/155984376147/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/27e5bdb5/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/155984376147/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/27e5bdb5/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/155984376147/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/27e5bdb5/a2t.img" border="0"/
