BBC NEWS Algeria votes amid tight security Voting is underway in Algeria for parliamentary elections which are being held amid heavy security following a series of bomb attacks. In the latest incident, one man was killed and five people injured in an explosion in the city of Constantine. The interior minister said the blast was an "act of sabotage" against the Algerian democratic system. An Islamic group said it carried out suicide bombings that killed 33 people in the capital, Algiers, last month. Voters will elect 389 members of parliament in the general election, in which more than 20 political parties are taking part. The Islamists are still banned from politics since elections they were set to win in 1992 were annulled, and militants have called on Algerians to boycott the polls. The main political group linked to the Berber speaking areas in the north-east are boycotting the polls. Islamists banned The BBC's Ian Pannell in Algiers says the Western-leaning government has proved a reliable ally to the West, in particular to Washington and its fight with Islamic extremism. The best way of responding to this kind of attack is strong participation in the legislative elections Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni Algerian interior minister No-one imagines that these elections will have an immediate impact on these substantial issues, he adds. Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said the latest bomb attack was not unexpected. "We have been expecting this kind of act. It is an act of sabotage, an act against the democratic system in Algeria," he said. "The best way of responding to this kind of attack is strong participation in the legislative elections." Our correspondent says some in the international community say Algeria has the potential to be a role model for the wider Arab world. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika launched a programme of national reconciliation in 2005, following years of a violent Islamist insurgency. About 150,000 people were killed in the civil war in the 1990s. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/6664165.stm Published: 2007/05/17 07:04:54 GMT C BBC MMVII . <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=32986/stime=1179402663/nc1=3848604/nc2=3848541/nc3=3848643> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
