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  • Algeria denies support for Libya's Gaddafi

    ALGIERS, March 3 (Reuters) - Algeria on Thursday denied allegations by Libyan rebels that it was involved in the Libyan unrest by supporting leader Muammar Gaddafi.

    "I strongly deny this information. It is absolutely inconceivable," Halim Benatallah, a ministerial delegate in charge of Algerian expatriates, told Reuters.

    "On the contrary, Algeria is playing its humanitarian role by trying to help as much as it can," he added.

    Benatallah was speaking at Algiers port where an Algerian boat carrying 1,300 people -- including Algerian, American, Moroccan and Tunisian nationals -- fleeing Libya's violence arrived from Tripoli and Benghazi.

    The rebel National Libyan Council said on Wednesday it believed Niger, Mali and Kenya were sending troops to support Gaddafi as he battles an uprising against his rule.

    Reuters

  • #2
    comme ça les choses sont bien claire ques qui vont nous trouver d autre

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    • #3
      bien sur bien sur

      chkoun ch hed alik a dib ? kou3lalti

      que veux tu qu'il disent d'autre

      maintenant wait and see
      La vitesse de la lumière dépassant celle du son, certaines personnes paraissent brillantes avant de l'ouvrir

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      • #4
        March 2, 2011

        Qadaffi has the support of at least one important regional ally, the Algerian government, which has both militarily and diplomatically thrown its full (and substantial) weight behind his effort to retain power.
        In so doing, it would appear that Algeria, which has long cooperated with the US and NATO on its North and Sub-Saharan Africa anti-terrorism policies, is breaking ranks to protect its regime’s very survival.


        If Mubarak saw the writing on the wall as Ben Ali’s little castle in Tunisia crumbled, so the Algerian military leadership understands that if Qadaffi falls, it very likely is next in line, or if not, not very far down the list. Desperate to cling to power, the Algerian government is – while offering a few political and economic concessions – essentially reorganizing the state’s substantial repressive apparatus to weather the protest storm. But in addition, it is pulling out all stops to support Qadaffi’s increasingly feeble hold on power.


        Less than a week ago, an Algerian human rights group based in Germany, Algeria Watch,published a statement alleging that the Algerian government is providing material aid – in the form of armed military units – to Muammar Qadaffi to help prop up his shrinking (and sinking) regime.
        The statement
        opens thus:
        “It is with both sadness and anger that we have learned that the Algerian government has sent armed detachments to Libya to commit crimes against our Libyan brothers and sisters who have risen up against the bloody and corrupt regime of Muammar Kadhafi. These armed detachments were first identified in western Libya in the city of Zaouia where some among them have been arrested. This has been reported in the media and confirmed by eye witnesses.”
        Zaouia is the site of fierce fire fights between the residents of Zaouia, now a zone liberated from Tripoli’s control and under the authority of rebel forces on the one hand, and the military elements still faithful to Qadaffi on the others. There were recent reports of a 6-8 hour battle in which Qadaffi’s forces, led by one of his sons tried to recapture the city but were repulsed by the city’s defenders and pushed back after fierce fighting.
        Algeria Watch goes on to accuse the Algerian government of having provided the air transport planes that have carried sub-Saharan African mercenaries from Niger, Chad and the Dafur province of Sudan to Libya to strengthen Qadaffi’s position militarily. It goes on to add that Algeria had played a similar role in transporting troops to Somalia to support the U.S. directed government military offensive against rebellious Somali tribes.

        The statement goes on to allege that on the diplomatic front the Algerian government has been lobbying different European powers (which are presumably France, Italy, German, Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain) pressing them to continue to support Qadaffi. These diplomatic efforts are being led by Abdelkader Messahel, Algerian Minister of Maghrebian and African Affairs. On the all-European level, Amar Bendjama, Algerian ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, as well as Algeria’s representative to the European Union and NATO and Belkacem Belgaid, another Algerian diplomat whose responsibilities include NATO and the EU, have together opened up an active lobbying campaign in support of Qadaffi.

        There is more.
        Under the direction of Colonel Djamel Bouzghaia, an advisor to Algerian President Bouteflika on security matters, Algeria has, according to the statement, `embraced’ a large number of elements of disposed Tunisian president Zine Ben Ali’s private security force and republican guard. These are the same units that were used as snipers to assassinate demonstrators in Kasserine, Sidi Bouzid and Thala in Tunisia. Now in the employ of Algeria, they too have been sent to Libya to shore up Qadaffi’s regime. Bouzghaia works directly under Major General Rachid Laalali (alias Attafi), head of Algeria’s external relations bureau.
        Who else is helping Qadaffi? It will be interesting to see what shakes out.


        Rob Prince
        lectures in International Studies at the University of Denver.




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        Dernière modification par Rif1979, 04 mars 2011, 11h49.

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        • #5
          L'Algérie dément soutenir Kadhafi

          L'Algérie n'apporte pas son soutien à Moummar Kadhafi. C'est le démenti apporté jeudi par le délégué ministériel chargé des expatriés algériens, Halim Benatallah aux accusations portées par les insurgés qui tiennent plusieurs villes de l'est de la Libye. "Au contraire, l'Algérie joue un rôle humanitaire en essayant d'apporter toute l'aide possible."

          Par Europe1.fr avec Reuters
          Publié le 3 mars 2011
          "Les vérités qu'on aime le moins à apprendre sont celles que l'on a le plus d'intérêt à savoir" (Proverbe Chinois)

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