Author: Oui

. ‘Cash from Doha’ (France24) – The first accusations of Qatari involvement with Tuareg separatists and Islamist groups came in a June 2012 article in respected French weekly the Canard Enchainé [EN]. In a...

. See earlier BooMan’s frontpage diary – Carnage in Algeria. It’s early, yet, but it looks like the Algerian government screwed the pooch and went and got a bunch of Western oil/gas workers killed who were...

. {Update} BREAKING NEWS: Algerian army has killed 11 hostage-takers in final assault on Sahara gas plant, seven hostages killed – state news agency. A sad end to an horrific assault by terrorists in the Sahara desert. All...

. Algeria hostage crisis ‘ongoing’, says Foreign Office – live updates … more than 600 Algerian hostages freed, still several dozen foreign employees unaccounted for. PM Cameron statement in British...

. Insight: Aleppo misery eats at Syrian rebel support ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) Jan. 8, 2013 – At a crowded market stall in Syria, a middle-aged couple, well dressed, shuffle over to press a folded note, furtively, into the...