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Topic: Abdelhamid Brahimi


In the News (Fri 1 Jan 10)

  
  International News, April 14, 1998
Professor Brahimi is in Ire-land this week to raise awareness of Algeria's plight and to lobby the Government to help stop the violence.
Professor Brahimi told of a bombing campaign in the mountains around Kabila and the capital Algiers: "The army were using Napalm against their own people.
Professor Brahimi also pointed to the ease with which the GIA carry out their massacres, sometimes in villages right next to military barracks.
archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/1998/04/14/fhead.htm   (3586 words)

  
 04/24/98 - Former prime minister discusses Algeria's crisis - iDS, Campus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Abdelhamid Brahimi, director general of the Centre for Maghreb Studies in London, discussed the political turmoil in Algeria.
Brahimi told stories of how the Algerian Army has taken over all the rights of the citizens.
Brahimi said the Algerian crisis is not an isolated one.
www.idsnews.com /news/042498/campus/042498former.html   (318 words)

  
 Special Report
One of the latest to come forward is Abdelhamid Brahimi, a former Algerian prime minister now in exile in London.
Brahimi noted that “the regular army, which numbers roughly 170,000 personnel, has been eclipsed by the creation of militia groups made up of 200,000 volunteers provided with better and more modern arms than those issued to soldiers....Now it is certain that the regular army…is innocent of the crimes committed in its name,” Brahimi said.
The aforementioned trio— of the two Lamaris and Tewfik Medien —at whose feet Brahimi places the blame for the current situation–are all cronies of Chadli, himself a military man two decades ago before he assumed the presidency.
www.wrmea.com /backissues/0498/9804050.html   (2628 words)

  
 The Secretary-General Off the Cuff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
You are right; I sent a team, led by Lakhdar Brahimi, to Iraq, and I think they did a very competent report, which has been generally well received.
Abdelhamid Abdeljaber and their team for the wonderful job they have done.
And I would like to assure you that, if there is a bias, we would like to claim that it is a bias towards the United Nations, because we are biased towards international law.
www.un.org /apps/sg/offthecuff.asp?nid=555   (4103 words)

  
 ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Specifically, the director’s script found its basis in young field journalist Baya A., who had literally gone through the wars and agreed to furnish story elements which have then been elaborated with other “real events.” Aside from a formidable heroine and stark, engrossing photography, the film is notable in its refusal to define easy villains.
Ostensibly she goes to visit an uncle and his former feminist activist daughter, but her true agenda is to find fiancé Rachid (Nazim Boudjenah), who seven months earlier had disappeared, unannounced, to enlist in the army of his birthplace.
After a return to the Officer in spy- and informer-filled Médéa, she catches a bus to Timimoun, rustic capital of the Touareg or famous “Blue Men.” A fellow passenger is the now clean-shaved Hakim, sullen and yet boyishly sweet, who opens himself to her and whom she in turn saves at a nasty military checkpoint.
www.reeltalkreviews.com /browse/viewitem.asp?type=review&id=934   (570 words)

  
 Muslim-American Activism
In a well-attended session entitled “Human Dignity and the Muslim World: The Case of Pakistan and Algeria,” former Prime Minister Abdelhamid Brahimi of Algeria discussed several aspects of the Algerian crisis, citing political, social, economic, and civilizational factors that have contributed to present problems there.
Regarding the systematic killing, rape, and torture of thousands of Algerians since 1992, Brahimi said “what‘s happening is unacceptable.” Brahimi himself was put on trial in Algeria when he expressed publicly his concerns about possible Algerian regime involvement in massacres there.
ISNA secretary-general Sayyid M. Syeed informed the audience that Qazi Hussain Ahmad, spiritual leader (Ameer) of the Islamic Group (Jamaat-e-Islami) in Pakistan, was unable to attend the convention due to the present circumstances in his region after the American bombing of Sudan and Afghanistan.
www.wrmea.com /backissues/1098/9810111b.html   (2389 words)

  
 CPJ News Alert
September 9: Said Brahimi, a journalist with Algerian state television (ENTV), and his wife Radja, a television employee, were gunned down in the town of Cherarda, east of Algiers.
January 13: The body of Abdelhamid Yahiaoui, a journalist with the government-controlled Arabic daily El Chaab, was found found near his home in Baraki with two bullet wounds in the head.
August 9: Abdelhamid Benmeni, a journalist with the news weekly Algerie-Actualite, was killed at his home.
www.cpj.org /news/1999/AlgeriaKilled.html   (1844 words)

  
 Brahimi, Abdelhamid - Former Prime Minister of Algeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Brahimi, Abdelhamid - Former Prime Minister of Algeria
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 Not so secret terrorist junta
He also said the Algerian security agents caused two of the 1995 Paris bombings and (hat there are clear links between them and their French counterparts.
At the same hearing Dr Abdelhamid Brahimi, a former Algerian prime minister (1984-1988), told the British parliamentarians that the Algerian government was now attempting nothing less than 'eradication of Islamism'.
A former diplomat, Muhammad Larmi Zaitout, also testified that the regime is behind the deaths.
www.aliasoft.com /themes/alger5.html   (1043 words)

  
 FAF - Preamble
But mismanagement, misguided foreign exploits and corruption so eroded the country's economic base that Libya sometimes defaults on its foreign bills and some government employees go unpaid for months.
Abdelhamid Brahimi, said recently that officials of the ruling Front de Liberation National had pocketed $26 billion in bribes and commissions on foreign contracts.
Mouloud Hamrouche, called the charge `grossly exaggerated' but did not deny its gist.
www.freeafrica.org /commentaries7.html   (1590 words)

  
 [Islam-Online- Top News]
Amongst the non-Algerian signatories were sheikhs Mustapha Machehour leader of the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt and Ahmed Yassin, leader of the Palestinian Hamas group.
Algerians who signed included former FIS leader Abdelkader Boukhemkhem, the exiled president of the FIS executive Rabah Kebir, and former prime minister Abdelhamid Brahimi who is in exile in London.
The group concluded that Hachani's assassination arose from a climate of "growing signs of marginalization, desperation, violence and fading hopes, resulting from the civil pact that has burdened the Algerian people and all those who love Algeria."
www.islamonline.net /iol-english/dowalia/news-26-11/topnews5.asp   (446 words)

  
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The articles implicate the Algerian armed forces in the murder of former President Boudiaf, who was assassinated on live television in 1992, and also blast the military for corruption under current President Bouteflika.
Algeria Interface claims that its sources point to former Prime Minister Abdelhamid Brahimi and Brahim Younessi, a former political adviser to an assassinated government critic, as the central force behind MAOL.
Both are known sympathizers of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), which also opposes the current government in Algiers, but the FIS denies involvement in MAOL.
www.angelfire.com /ok/worldofradio/dxld1010.txt   (3944 words)

  
 The Message - Article "The Massacres in Algeria: Behind the Wall of Silence"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
We will leave it to the judgment of the respected reader.
After the revelations made by former prime Minister Abdelhamid Brahimi back in March regarding the massacre of members of his own family, here is Mr.
Ahmed Ben Bella, the former President of Algeria revealing to Al Ittihad newspaper (8 August1997): Question: How about accusations leveled against instruments (of the establishment) possibly being behind theses massacres?
www.icna.org /tm/algeria31.htm   (1224 words)

  
 ISNA_Convention_Program98.html
Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Amir (President) of Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan will speak on issue of human dignity in the Pakistani context.
Abdelhamid Brahimi, former Prime Minister of Algeria, will address human dignity issues in Algeria.
Role of the media in public opinion/policy formation is analyzed and issues such as selectivity of the mainstream media are explored.
www.sakkal.com /ISNA98_Program.html   (2837 words)

  
 Algeria Government 1990 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ...
Chadli Bendjedid, chairman; Abdelhamid Mehri, secretary general; the government established a multiparty system in September 1989 and as of 1 February 1990 19 legal parties existed
Diplomatic representation: Ambassador Abderrahmane BENSID; Chancery at 2118 Kalorama Road NW, Washington DC 20008; telephone (202) 328-5300; US--Ambassador Christopher W. ROSS; Embassy at 4 Chemin Cheich Bachir Brahimi, Algiers (mailing address is B. Box 549, Alger-Gare, 16000 Algiers); telephone p213o (2) 601-425 or 255, 186; there is a US Consulate in Oran
Flag: two equal vertical bands of green (hoist side) and white with a red five-pointed star within a red crescent; the crescent, star, and color green are traditional symbols of Islam (the state religion)
www.theodora.com /wfb1990/algeria/algeria_government.html   (299 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was the infusion of this knowledge into Western Europe, historians say, that fueled the Renaissance and the scientific revolution.
"Civilizations don't just clash," said Dr. Abdelhamid Sabra, a retired professor of the history of Arabic science who taught at Harvard.
Islam is a good example of that." The intellectual meeting of Arabia and Greece was one of the greatest events in history, he said.
www.alb-net.com /pipermail/alb-club/Week-of-Mon-20011029.txt   (17483 words)

  
 United Nations - DESA News
To help Africa build up its capacity to tackle the spread of HIV/AIDS pandemic and other infectious diseases.
The main document before the Security Council was the report of the high level Panel on United Nations Peace Operations (Brahimi Report) (A/55/305-S/2000/809), commissioned by the Secretary General in March 2000.
In its debate, the Council urged the United Nations system to develop "comprehensive and integrated strategies to address the root causes of conflicts, including their economic and social dimensions."
www.un.org /esa/desa/desaNews/desa45.html   (7575 words)

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