Algeria has become now the world's second most dangerous place for travelers, after Chechnya. Not much of a tourist bullet point, but that's the only good news we found. It is still a country where whacked-out fundamentalists and ultraright terrorists turned military turned government fight to the bitter end.
The rebel groups, seeming bored with killing and barbequeing helpless villagers, occupy themselves by blowing each other away. The FIS and GIA and splinter groups of the GIA have decided to take out each other. The resulting civil strife is similar to that in Somalia and southern Lebanon.
A Day at the Office
"Expat workers travel from the living quarters compound to the worksite only a couple of kilometers away under heavy military escort," wrote an American expat to DP who works for Sonatrach, the Algerian Oil & Natural Gas Co. "We are not allowed to leave the worksite or the compound without this escort. A ship docks twice a week at the worksite for expats only and crosses to Cagliari, Sardinia, for R&R or for flights out. For the army, guarding expats is better than fighting terrorists in the mountains. The army will not win until they learn and are willing to fight at night."
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