At 07:27 AM 4/20/97 +0800, jamesd wrote:
The election of various unpleasant Islamic Fundamentalist regimes. In particular, it seems likely that had the generals not violently overthrown democracy in Algeria, the democratically elected representatives of the people would have proceeded to kill off everyone they deemed insufficiently Islamic, a very substantial minority, a minority which would doubtless have included most of the generals and their families.
At 09:22 PM 4/20/97 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
The Islamic party didn't start killing off foreigners until the French and other Westerners supported the generals who overthrew them.
However they have been murdering Algerian women and children from day one, though they did not get into murdering Western women and children until a little later. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com