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"Since you cannot convey reality precisely, since in the last resort there is no precise reality to convey, why worry? All that is expected of you is a good story, so let them have it. Truth? What is truth?" writes Edward Mortimer in "Islam and the Western journalist." And thus the Western press...
Despite President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s significant strides in pursuing reconciliation with Islamist opponents there has been a recent spate of terrorist attacks across Algeria after a relative lull. The GIA, Algeria’s most radical guerrilla faction, has dismissed a peace deal between the...
Hardline militants of Algeria’s Armed Islamic Group (GIA) threatened on June 27 to create a "bloodbath" in Belgium if the authorities there do not release several of its leaders jailed last month.
Algeria’s new President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has just announced plans to pardon thousands of pro-Islamist prisoners, looks determined to restore peace in order to tackle major social issues. In under three months, Bouteflika has already obtained the "surrender" of the Islamic Salvation Army (...
Also Al-Osbua gives a background on Osama Bin Laden and his former connections with the US.
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