"I would like to confirm Russia's determination to expand cooperation with friendly Algeria in the fight against new challenges and threats..." - Putin Condolences To Algeria Over Terror Attacks
"Any Significance of December 11? We will always have the tendency of looking at the date 11 in each month as a potential because of 9/11 in America and 3/11 in Madrid." - Algeria's bombings: al Qaeda strike at French-Algerian rapprochement?
"A terrorist bomb attack targeted on Sunday a bus carrying Russian experts working for Stroi Trans Gas company near Bawaish town west of the Algerian capital, an Algerian security source said." - Attack on bus carrying Russian employees W. Algeria
Bouteflika favours the formation of a Gas OPEC, including Russia, Iran, Qatar, Venezuela, and Algeria. The EU and USA oppose this. In 2006, a memorandum of understanding was signed between Russia's Gazprom and Algeria's Sonatrach. The targets of 'al Qaeda' violence have been mainly poor Moslems plus one Russian. - CIA trying to topple Algeria's Bouteflika?
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