Murders, plots and friendly hugs
French police has reopened investigations into the death of Ali Mecili, an activist in the appropriately named Algerian opposition party FFS, who was assassinated in 1987. It lacks the extraordinary symbolic power and regime-shaking potential of the ben Barka murder in Morocco, but is otherwise similar and pretty important still: the prime suspect, a high-ranking official in the Algerian foreign ministry, has been arrested. (If Francophone, do read this interview with FFS's legendary leader Hocine Aït Ahmed.)
And while on Algerian murder plots, did Abdelhaqq Laayada, former leader of the GIA terrorist group, just say he was invited to the funeral of Smaïl Lamari, the recently deceased security service strongman? And that he met the éradicateur all star team there, and exchanged hugs and kisses? Oh.
Well, indicative of conspiracy or not, it's also illustrative of the curiously tiny, amoral and supercharged world of the Algerian elite. They massacre each other, then have tea together to talk it over, then switch sides, and then the knives are out again: the Algerian equivalent of an election cycle.
3 comments:
"the Algerian equivalent of an election cycle."
it's called evolution or "natural selection". :D
doesn't evolution require some sort of progress?
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