FIS radical Ali Belhadj has been trying to build momentum in Algiers though he recently lost a son in an apparently failed terrroist attack...
Vol 52 No 17 |
- LIBYA
- AFRICA
Abbasi Madani (in Qatar) and Ali Belhadj (in Algiers) wait in the wings...
Bouteflika seems to thinks his regime has outplayed the opposition since January when he crushed Saadi’s initial efforts to mobilise mass protests in Algiers and when angry residents in Bab el Oued shunned former FIS leader Ali Belhadj’s efforts to exploit riots (AC Vol 52 No 3)...
Vol 52 No 3 |
- NORTH AFRICA
After attempts by former Front Islamique du Salut leader Ali Belhadj to exploit the riots came to nothing he is widely expected to be imprisoned for incitement to armed rebellion...
We hear efforts by ex-Front Islamique du Salut leader Ali Belhadj to use the disturbances to get militants on to the streets – as he did after Algeria’s pivotal October 1988 riots – came to nothing...
The radical icon of the FIS Ali Belhadj is keen to stand in the presidential contest...
Some civil society figures have seen an opportunity to reconcile Moroccans by promoting an Islamist alternative via the PJD whose allies include the liberal Ali Belhadj and former employers' chief Abderrahim Lahjouji's Forces Citoyennes...
Vol 48 No 9 |
- ALGERIA
- MAGHREB
In a letter to Saudi Arabian Wahabi Islamist Sheikh Safar al Hawali the most radical leader of the former Front Islamique du Salut (FIS) Ali Belhadj last November called on Muslims to join the jihad in Iraq...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
A beacon of the ruling Front de Libération Nationale's Arab/Islamist wing Belkhadem's efforts to bring more former Front Islamique du Salut leaders back into the fold (including the recently returned Rabah Kebir but not Abbasi Madani or Ali Belhadj) have failed...
Vol 47 No 1 |
- NORTH AFRICA
Its former leader Abbasi Madani stays in Qatari exile while radical icon Ali Belhadj remains under security service control...