Foreign Policy and the Global War on Terror in the Reproduction of Algerian State Power

Keenan, Jeremy H.

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Author(s): Jeremy H. Keenan ¹

Publication date (Print, pub): 1 October 2012

Journal: State Crime Journal

Publisher: Pluto Journals

Keywords: Algeria; USA; Bouteflika; foreign policy; terrorism; "global war on terror"; GWOT; mukhabarat; Arab Spring

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This article reveals how Algeria has managed its foreign policy since the "Dirty War" of the 1990s, especially through its post 9/11 alliance with the USA, to re-establish itself in the international community and to re-equip its army with modern weaponry. Its relationship with the US, founded on the two states' collusion in the fabrication of terrorism and their subsequent pursuance of the global war on terror (GWOT), is shown to be contradictory. By strengthening the Algerian mukhabarat (police state) and enabling it to become even more repressive, it has exacerbated the conditions that might lead to its own "Arab Spring".

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Journal ID (jstor): statecrime

Journal ID (doi): 10.2307/j50005552

Title: State Crime Journal

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 20466056

Publication date (Print, pub): 1 October 2012

Volume: 1

Issue: 2

Pages: 196-216

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[1 ] School of Oriental and African Studies, London University;

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"Politique étrangère et guerre mondiale contre le terrorisme dans la reproduction du pouvoir algérien", in Revue Tiers Monde (12/04/2012), No. 1.
"520 marches et sit-in en mars", El Watan 12/05/2011.
"Algerian protests break out over electricity, water and housing", El Khabar, Algeria, 9 July 2012. Translated version accessed on Al-Monitor at: http://www.al-monitor.com/ pulse/politics/2012/07/electricity-water-and-housing-is.html
"Algeria: the revolution that never was", Al Jazeera, 17 May 2012. Accessed at: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2012/05/20125161454572 32336.html
Roberts 2003: 53
Keenan (2009), chapter 10, footnote 14, p. 242.
Keenan (2009), p. 163.
Keenan (2009), pp. 116-31.
World Tribune, 16 July 2001.
Keenan (2009), p. 164. El Hayat. Quoted in Algeria Amnesty Newsletter (note 21) and Human Rights Watch (http://hrw.org/wr2k2/menal.html).
Algeria Amnesty Newsletter, Sept-Oct 2001. Accessed at: http://www.amnesty-volunteer.org/uk/ algeria/O1Sep.php
Northrop Grumman, Lockheed and Raytheon. Algerian Interface and El Watan, 5 November 2001. Algeria Amnesty Newsletter, Nov-Dec 2001 (http://www. amnesty-volunteer.org/uk/algeria/01Nov.php).
Keenan (2009), pp. 165-6, and footnotes.
Keenan (2012), chapter 1.
Keenan (2009).
Keenan (2009, 2012).
Keenan (2009).
Keenan (2012), chapter 3.
Keenan (2009), pp. xx-xxi.
Keenan (2012), chapter 6.
Keenan (2012).
"Mali Tuaregs say Algerian militant killed in clash", Reuters, Dakar, 1 October 2006. Accessed at: http://www.algeria-watch.de/en/articles/2006/mali_tuaregs.htm
Richard Norton-Taylor, "Terrorist case collapses after three years", Guardian, 21 March 2000. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, The War on Truth (Arris Books, 2005), p. 73.
Keenan (2012), chapter 11
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ ld200304/ldhansrd/vo040909/text/40909-58.htm
"Burt expresses views of Britain over issues of military cooperation with Algeria, Western Sahara and Iran," El Khabar, 13 November 2010. Keenan (2012), chapter 17.
"For the UK, Algeria has already great experience [in counter terrorism] and we will offer full assistance to the Algerian Government in its fight against Al Qaida in the Maghreb. The Algerian government is very strong in combating terrorism and the United Kingdom is confident and optimistic about this approach." Accessed at: http://menasassociates. blogspot.com/2010/12/uk-working-closely-with-algeria-on.html. Keenan (2012), chapter 17; "UK in North Africa: Myths and contradictions", AlJazeera, 16 April 2011, accessed at: http:// www.aljazeera.com/indepth/briefings/2011/04/201141514124682605.html
"Al-Qaida and Taliban status check: a resurgent threat?" delivered to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 29 September 2009. Accessed at: http://www.teachingterror.net/resources/AQ%20Status%20check.pdf.
M. Ag Khelfa, "Assassinat, affrontements meurtriers, prises d'otages, trafics d'armes et de drogues dans l'espace Sahel-saharien: Comment l'Algérie a exporté sa 'sale guerre' au Mali", L'Indépendant, 7 December 2009.
Wikileaks Cable, 1 December 2009.
Aomar Ouali and Paul Schemm, "Niger official doubts anti-terror efforts", Associated Press, 8 September 2011. Accessed at: http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Niger-official-doubts-anti- terror-efforts-20110908
Xinhua on 23 April under the headline: Algeria warns of flow of weapons in Libya. Accessed at: http:// world.globaltimes.cn/africa/2011-04/647869.html

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[1] "Politique étrangère et guerre mondiale contre le terrorisme dans la reproduction du pouvoir algérien", in Revue Tiers Monde (12/04/2012), No. 1.

[2] "520 marches et sit-in en mars", El Watan 12/05/2011.

[3] "Algerian protests break out over electricity, water and housing", El Khabar, Algeria, 9 July 2012. Translated version accessed on Al-Monitor at: http://www.al-monitor.com/ pulse/politics/2012/07/electricity-water-and-housing-is.html

[4] "Algeria: the revolution that never was", Al Jazeera, 17 May 2012. Accessed at: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2012/05/20125161454572 32336.html

[5] Roberts 2003: 53

[6] Keenan (2009), chapter 10, footnote 14, p. 242.

[7] Keenan (2009), p. 163.

[8] Keenan (2009), pp. 116-31.

[9] World Tribune, 16 July 2001.

[10] Keenan (2009), p. 164. El Hayat. Quoted in Algeria Amnesty Newsletter (note 21) and Human Rights Watch (http://hrw.org/wr2k2/menal.html).

[11] Algeria Amnesty Newsletter, Sept-Oct 2001. Accessed at: http://www.amnesty-volunteer.org/uk/ algeria/O1Sep.php

[12] Northrop Grumman, Lockheed and Raytheon. Algerian Interface and El Watan, 5 November 2001. Algeria Amnesty Newsletter, Nov-Dec 2001 (http://www. amnesty-volunteer.org/uk/algeria/01Nov.php).

[13] Keenan (2009), pp. 165-6, and footnotes.

[14] Keenan (2012), chapter 1.

[15] Keenan (2009).

[16] Keenan (2009, 2012).

[17] Keenan (2009).

[18] Keenan (2012), chapter 3.

[19] Keenan (2009), pp. xx-xxi.

[20] Keenan (2012), chapter 6.

[21] Keenan (2012).

[22] "Mali Tuaregs say Algerian militant killed in clash", Reuters, Dakar, 1 October 2006. Accessed at: http://www.algeria-watch.de/en/articles/2006/mali_tuaregs.htm

[23] Richard Norton-Taylor, "Terrorist case collapses after three years", Guardian, 21 March 2000. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, The War on Truth (Arris Books, 2005), p. 73.

[24] Keenan (2012), chapter 11

[25] http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ ld200304/ldhansrd/vo040909/text/40909-58.htm

[26] "Burt expresses views of Britain over issues of military cooperation with Algeria, Western Sahara and Iran," El Khabar, 13 November 2010. Keenan (2012), chapter 17.

[27] "For the UK, Algeria has already great experience [in counter terrorism] and we will offer full assistance to the Algerian Government in its fight against Al Qaida in the Maghreb. The Algerian government is very strong in combating terrorism and the United Kingdom is confident and optimistic about this approach." Accessed at: http://menasassociates. blogspot.com/2010/12/uk-working-closely-with-algeria-on.html. Keenan (2012), chapter 17; "UK in North Africa: Myths and contradictions", AlJazeera, 16 April 2011, accessed at: http:// www.aljazeera.com/indepth/briefings/2011/04/201141514124682605.html

[28] "Al-Qaida and Taliban status check: a resurgent threat?" delivered to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 29 September 2009. Accessed at: http://www.teachingterror.net/resources/AQ%20Status%20check.pdf.

[29] M. Ag Khelfa, "Assassinat, affrontements meurtriers, prises d'otages, trafics d'armes et de drogues dans l'espace Sahel-saharien: Comment l'Algérie a exporté sa 'sale guerre' au Mali", L'Indépendant, 7 December 2009.

[30] Wikileaks Cable, 1 December 2009.

[31] Aomar Ouali and Paul Schemm, "Niger official doubts anti-terror efforts", Associated Press, 8 September 2011. Accessed at: http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Niger-official-doubts-anti- terror-efforts-20110908

[32] Xinhua on 23 April under the headline: Algeria warns of flow of weapons in Libya. Accessed at: http:// world.globaltimes.cn/africa/2011-04/647869.html

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