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Failing to overthrow the Algerian al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) retains a considerable capacity for harm. In early June, the terrorist group has captured a British hostage executed A few weeks earlier by his branch Saharan desert on the edge of the Algerian-Malian. Then, on June 17, the AQIM killed at least 18 policemen in an ambush of a convoy of five cars on a main road in the region of Bordj Bou Arreridj, east of Algiers, is the deadliest attack this year. The security forces came to escort Chinese employees working on a construction site of the future highway that will cross the east-west Algeria, the Tunisian border to the Moroccan border. That day, the Islamists were not about the Chinese group CITIC-CRCC, commissioned to build cheaply and quickly as possible the new road network of a country rich in petrodollars. They do not even mention the company in their statement of claim.
Attracting international attention
The crisis in the Chinese province of Xinjiang is now amending the deal. Hitherto spared the tens of thousands of Chinese nationals living in Algeria could become targets, like Westerners. According forums online sites Islamist al-Qaeda threatens retaliation Beijing's interests throughout North Africa.
In Algiers, the threat is taken very seriously. The AQIM diversified into effect last year its shares. The armed movement still directs its attacks against representatives of the Algerian government - whether military, police and municipal guards - but he looks in parallel, under the influence of the ideologues of al-Qaida to attract the attention International.
Despite draconian security measures, the community of European expatriates was hit several times in recent years. The major French companies present on the Algerian market have organized a system to protect their staff, they advise families of their employees to avoid exposure.
With about a thousand men, the AQIM has more scope than before the Armed Islamic Groups (GIA) in the late 1990s. It is formed from underground confined to the mountains east of Algiers, who have networks of logistical support in the towns and sources of arms supplies via the Sahel.
Officially, over 30,000 Chinese have settled on Algerian soil. A large portion of them working in the construction sector, Chinese companies have won most of the construction contracts for real estate programs in the emergency created by the state to absorb the housing crisis. Many Chinese have also taken up in small businesses. Shops products made in China run by Asians settled gradually in the commercial districts of major urban informal, under the surprised look of Algerians who discover their immigrants.
Le Figaro, 16/07/09
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