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	Algeria - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Algeria is a country in northern Africa with a coast on the Mediterranean Sea along the north and bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, and Morocco in the west (the Moroccan border is closed [1]).
		Algeria was brought into the Ottoman Empire by Khair ad-Din and his brother Aruj who made its coast a base for the corsairs; their [privateering] peaked in Algiers in the 1600s, after which the center of activity moved to Tripoli in Libya.
		Algeria has the fifth-largest reserves of natural gas in the world and is the second largest gas exporter; it ranks 14th in oil reserves.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Algeria (1165 words)

	Medea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The myths that involve Medea are part of a class of myths that tell how the Hellenes of the distant heroic age, before the Trojan War, faced the challenges of the pre-Greek "Pelasgian" cultures of mainland Greece, and the Aegean and Anatolia.
		Medea got even by giving Creusa a cursed dress that stuck to her body and burned her to death as soon as she put it on, a transformation of the mythic element in the story of Heracles and Nessus.
		Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica; Apollodorus, Bibliotheke I, 23-28; Ovid, Metamorphoses VII, 1-424; Euripides, Medea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medea (1121 words)

	Medea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		City in north-central Algeria with 130,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), on the foot of Nador Mountain at an elevation of 920 metres.
		Medea's economy is largely connected with local agriculture, which specializes in the production of wine and high-grade cereals.
		Medea is dominated by its French quarters with the rectangular city plan, public gardens and red-tiled buildings.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/medea.htm (154 words)

	Algeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Algeria's north is fairly fertile with agricultural land between forested mountains.
		Desert dominates large parts of Algeria's vast territory, and Algeria is among the countries filling most of the world's largest desert, Sahara.
		Algeria has been through a troublesome decade, involving civil unrest, terrorism against the population from both the government and from militant Islamists.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/algeria.htm (212 words)

	Medea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Medea distracted her father as they fled by killing her brother, Apsyrtus.
		Medea poisoned Creon and fled to Athens but, unable to take her children with her, he left them to Jason's care; Creon's family killed the children out of revenge.
		The tragic situation of Medea, abandoned in Corinth by Jason, was the subject matter transformed by Euripedes in his tragedy Medea, first performed in 431 BC.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Medea.htm (914 words)

	ipedia.com: Algeria Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is a country in northern Africa bordering the Mediterranean Sea in the north, Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and...
		The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is a country in northern Africa bordering the Mediterranean Sea in the north, Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, and Morocco in the west (the Moroccan border is closed [1]).
		In the 1990s, Algeria was engulfed in a bloody civil war after the military prevented an Islamist political party, the Islamic Salvation Front from taking power following the country's first multiparty elections.
	www.ipedia.com /algeria_1.html (956 words)

	Timeline Algeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Khayr Ad-Din was a Barbary pirate and later, as admiral of the Ottoman fleet, he united Algeria and Tunisia as military states under the Ottoman caliphate in the 1530s.
		1997 Nov 9, In Algeria attackers disguised as policemen slit the throats of 28 civilians in 2 separate attacks in the northwest.
		2001 Jun 18, In Algeria’s Kabyle region 3 police officers were killed and dozens injured in riots provoked by the April 18 death of a Berber teenager in a police station.
	www.bonus.com /contour/timelines_history/http@@/timelines.ws/countries/ALGERIA.HTML (8786 words)

	HRW World Report 1999: Algeria: Human Rights Developments
		Algeria’s human rights emergency provoked more international concern and diplomatic activity during 1998 than at any time since the violence became endemic in 1992.
		Algeria’s report to the U.N. Human Rights Committee said that through December 1997, the courts had punished 128 members of the security forces and self-defense groups for “excesses in the performance of their duties,” but provided no verifiable details.
		Despite official denials, evidence pointed to government responsibility in the many cases in which witnesses saw the victims being seized by groups of armed men they took to be security-force members, or in which family members heard unofficially that the missing person had been sighted in a detention facility.
	www.hrw.org /hrw/worldreport99/mideast/algeria.html (2215 words)

	Emergency in Algeria for the victims of terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The first EMERGENCY 'envoy' to Medea, Algeria is Antonio Carvalho, an orthopedic prosthesis technician who is there since January, this year.
		In Algeria there is a discrete number of adequately trained technicians, including some that went through staging through some European companies.
		The situation in Algeria is not yet stable, even if it has improved, and Medea is still considered a town at high risk for terrorist attacks.
	www.disabilityworld.org /04-05_03/violence/emergency.shtml (422 words)

	:: MEDEA :: ALGERIA, Elections and Parliament
		The elections were characterised by unrest in the largely Berber-speaking Kabylie region and terrorist groups resumed their bomb attacks in the capital Algiers and neighbouring towns.
		The president of Algeria is elected by universal adult suffrage for a five-year term.
		The first elections since the independence of Algeria was declared in 1962 put Ferhat Abbas into power, after which Ben Bella, from the FLN, was elected for a term of five years without opposition in 1963.
	www.medea.be /?page=2&lang=en&doc=13 (1934 words)

	ERRI Terrorism HotSpot Report on Algeria
		The insurgency in Algeria began about five years ago when the ruling military junta scrapped a general election in which Islamists were believed to be victorious.
		People who choose to travel to Algeria or to be there for business, or other essential reasons, should do so only when the issue of their personal security has been specifically addressed by the government of Algeria and appropriate measures put in place by that government or its agents to reduce the risk to them.
		Travel overland in Algeria is considered to be dangerous because the Government of Algeria is reluctant to provide security based on their assessment of the risk to Algerian personnel.
	www.emergency.com /algrwarn.htm (2816 words)

	Ethnologue report for Algeria
		Moroccan border along the Atlas Mountains, northeast to Medea (south of Algiers), southeast to the Righ Wadi, south to 28 degrees latitude, as far as Plateau du Tademait, including some in the town of Tamanrasset.
		[tzm] Western Algeria mountain area of Atlas and adjacent valleys to Taza, in the vicinity of Rabat, south near the Moroccan border.
		Tidikelt, in the vicinity of Salah, and Tit in southern Algeria.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Algeria (401 words)

	Encyclopedia: Algeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Algeria Watch human rights organization critical of widespread torture practiced by the rÃ©gime (in French)
		Algeriaâs past needs opening, not closing Analysis on the public referendum held 29 September 2005 by Veerle Opgenhaffen and Hanny Megally
		Zimbabwe This is an alphabetical list of the sovereign states of the world, including both de jure and de facto independent states.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Algeria (435 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Africa / 16 Killed in Algeria Rebel Attack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		MEDEA, Algeria (Reuters) - Suspected Algerian Islamic militants killed 16 people in the first attack on civilians since the start of the holy month of Ramadan, officials said on Saturday.
		The victims, mostly young people, were shot dead, burned or had their throats cut at a rebel roadblock early in the evening on Friday near the city of Medea, some 45 miles south of Algiers, a civil defense officer told Reuters.
		Local residents said those killed on a mountainous road were on their way to visit their farm lands.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2004/10/23/16_killed_in_algeria_rebel_attack?mode=PF (481 words)

	The Terrorism Research Center ::
		September 5, 2003: Algeria, especially Sahara desert areas of southeastern Algeria and northeastern Mali.
		Algeria has the fifth-largest reserves of natural gas in the world and is the second largest gas exporter; it ranks fourteenth for oil reserves.
		Algeria's finances in 2000 benefited from the spike in oil prices and the government's tight fiscal policy, leading to a large increase in the trade surplus, the near tripling of foreign exchange reserves, and reduction in foreign debt.
	www.terrorism.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=Countries&file=index&view=3 (692 words)

	CNN - World News Briefs - May 30, 1996
		MEDEA, Algeria (CNN) -- The bodies of seven French monks who were abducted in Algeria two months ago have reportedly been found.
		The Algerian Interior Ministry said the monks' remains were discovered several kilometers from the town of Medea, southwest of Algiers.
		Algeria's most violent insurgents, the Armed Islamic Group, kidnapped the monks from their monastery in March.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /WORLD/9605/30/newsbriefs (585 words)

	2005 Population Figures for Medea, Algeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The group is known as Medea, or Measurements of Earth Data for Environmental Analysis.
		MEDEA was established in 1991 as an outgrowth of discussions initiated by...
		Medea is a joint-stock company, which was built in 1924 and re-registered as...
	travel.synabu.com /cities/M/Medea,_Algeria.html (533 words)

	CNN - Algeria's insurgency enters 7th year amid brutal killings - Jan. 10, 1998
		ALGIERS, Algeria (CNN) -- At least 41 more Algerian peasants have been brutally murdered in recent days, as the nation's Muslim insurgency begins its seventh year Sunday, Algerian newspapers reported.
		The peasants are caught in the middle, between the militants and the military-backed government that on January 11, 1992, canceled legislative elections the Islamic Salvation Front was expected to win.
		A statement from Algeria's foreign ministry said the situation was made even more serious "since this country (Iran) is involved in supporting terrorism in Algeria."
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9801/10/algeria (640 words)

	Algeria Provinces
		At the beginning of the 20th century, Algeria was a French colony.
		When Algeria was under French administration, the official division names were in French.
		Generally speaking, the civil territories were in the north along the coast, while the military territories were in the Sahara region.
	www.statoids.com /udz.html (1526 words)

	Algiers - news and current events. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Medea, Algeria - Suspected Algerian Islamic militants killed 16 people in the first attack on civilians since the start of...
		MEDEA, Oct 23: Suspected Algerian Islamic militants killed 16 people in the first attack on civilians since the start of the holy month of...
		MEDEA, Algeria (Reuters) - Suspected Algerian Islamic militants have killed 16 peo...
	archive.wn.com /2004/10/25/1400/algiers (476 words)

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		The number of known missionaries around the world killed in 1996 is about 46.
		Of these, 40 died on the African soil in the following countries: 19 in Zaire, 8 in Algeria, 7 in Burundi, 3 in Rwanda, 2 in Ghana, and 1 in Tanzania.
		The blood of these daughters and sons of the Church has not been shed for nothing, since the blood of Christians indeed sows the seeds ofthefaith in Christ.
	www.rc.net /africa/catholicafrica/mission.htm (134 words)

	CNN.com - Gunmen kill 16 in attack on Algerian boarding school - December 17, 2000
		MEDEA, Algeria (AP) -- Armed gunmen shot to death 15 students and a security guard in an overnight weekend massacre at an Algerian boarding school, witnesses said Sunday.
		The attackers burst into the Lycee Technique of Medea, 50 miles south of the capital Algiers, Saturday night, first killing the school guard and then opening machine-gun fire inside of the boys dormitories.
		More than 100,000 people have been killed in Algeria during the insurgency that dates back to 1992, when the military-backed government canceled elections.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/12/17/algeria.massacre.ap (328 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Algeria
		After a century of rule by France, and in the wake of 1948 elections rigged by French colonists to reverse the sweeping victory of a Muslim political party in 1947, Algerians fought through the 1950s to achieve independence in 1962.
		Algeria assumed a two-year seat on the UN Security Council in January 2004.
		Algeria has the seventh-largest reserves of natural gas in the world and is the second-largest gas exporter; it ranks 14th in oil reserves.
	www.brainyatlas.com /geos/ag.html (1308 words)

	Algeria Terrorist and Insurgent Groups/ GIA/Armed Islamic Group/AIS/ Islamic Salvation Front Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Algeria, pp 29-40 (especially note section one 'History' and section nine 'Insurgency Groups').
		Algeria's civil war and the role that France and the U.S. are playing in the conflict is discussed.
		Zoubir, Yahia H. The Failure of the Authoritarian Developmentalist Regimes and the Emergence of Radical Protest Movements in the Middle East and Africa: The Case of Algeria.
	www.maxwell.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/tergps/tgalg.htm (1091 words)

	Medici di guerra Inivati di pace
		The situation in Algeria is not yet stable, though it has improved, and in terms of terrorist attacks Medea is still seen as a high-risk zone.
		Our activity in Medea, which concentrates on the amputee casualties of terrorism, also aims at re-establishing a sense of normalcy and security in everyday life.
		We strongly hope that the city of Medea, so frequently mentioned in the bulletins of massacres and terrorist attacks, may become a city of peace and order.
	www.emergency.it /mdgidp/eng/storia.php?id=11 (360 words)

	Algeria map and information page by World Atlas
		Algeria is the second largest country in Africa.
		Tourism is still somewhat rare in Algeria, as many international travel sources still warn of potential dangers and problems.
		Rain is infrequent throughout Algeria, especially south and central.
	worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/africa/dz.htm (427 words)

	:: MEDEA :: Algeria, state institutions
		Any text passed by the Assembly must be approved by three-quarters of the members of the Council in order to become legislation.
		The first legislative election in Algeria took place on the 20th of September 1962, only a few months after national independence.
		These were elected on the 5th of June 1997, and constitute the first pluralist parliament of independent Algeria.
	www.medea.be /?page=2&lang=en&doc=12 (2220 words)

	Amnesty International 1998 Annual Report on Algeria (the People's Democratic Republic of)
		The decree fell short of international standards governing the conduct of law enforcement officials, and did not provide essential safeguards contained in human rights standards, ratified by Algeria, designed to ensure both that militia members respect and protect human rights and that complaints of human rights abuses by militia members are adequately investigated.
		The organization called for an international investigation to be set up to establish the facts concerning human rights abuses, examine responsibility for the violations and put forward a long-term plan to end the human rights crisis.
		The organization was refused access to Algeria throughout the year.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar98/mde28.htm (2293 words)

	Organization - Attack Search
		On 26 April, the GIA offered to free the monks in exchange for the release of GIA members held in France.
		Twelve were murdered by slitting their throats, but two others escaped with injuries.
		On 16 December, the Armed Islamic Group claimed responsibility, stating that the attack was part of an ongoing campaign to rid Algeria of all foreigners and to avenge Muslims killed in Bosnia.
	www.ict.org.il /inter_ter/orgattack.cfm?orgid=7 (747 words)

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