The Algerian Paradox

One of the most telling developments of the Libyan uprising was the flight of senior members of the Qadhafi family, including Muammar Qadhafi’s wife and three of his children, to Algeria. That they should have found refuge from one blighted country in another one just across the border says a great deal about the troubled state of the region, and the reason why the Arab Spring was so overdue. It is sad to admit that Algerians would not have found the Qadhafis’ arrival in their c...

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