![]() ![]() It has been called Algeria’s civil war and, like most civil wars, there has been nothing civil about it. As long as the Algerian government keeps the gas and oil flowing, they have our support and our indifference. Such terrorism of the spectacle brings fleeting international attention to what is otherwise just another forsaken conflict on the margins, another front in the global war on terror. Worse still, a handful of people who did not work there died because he had scheduled a meeting. Another acquaintance lost most of his colleagues in the targeted UN building. His office, not far from one of the blasts, was now covered in dust and splintered glass. When the Algerians around me began receiving text messages naming possible locations of the attacks, I quickly called a friend working for the European Union. It rattled the windows and echoed off the whitewashed buildings into the Mediterranean. The second explosion was closer, unmistakable. The latter-a double suicide car bombing-I first dismissed as a construction accident next door, where a new embassy is being built. Witness the attacks of April and December 2007 in the political heart of Algiers. Martin Evans and John Phillips, Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007).Īlgeria is haunted by political violence. ![]()
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