Algeria Special Forces training south of Algiers: Why wasn't
the
United States more involved in dealing with the recent terrorist
attack and hostage taking at an Algerian gas complex? Because
Algeria's government outright rejected American involvement.
Hats Off to
Algeria for Rejecting U.S. Meddling in Hostage Crisis (Echorouk al-Yawm, Algeria)
"It is necessary
to refer to the many ways Arabs humiliate themselves before the Americans to
the point where some Arab rulers allow them to bomb their own populations, like
in Yemen, and to accept American deployment on their soil to destroy another
Arab country, as still others bring in the Americans to establish military
bases on their soil and even pay their expenses."
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, an Algerian terrorist, kidnapper, smuggler, and weapons dealer, leader of the Al-Mulatahemeen [Masked] Brigade, a terrorist group said to be aligned with al-Qaeda. The Brigade took over 800 people captive in the recent In Aménas hostage crisis. At last count, 39 foreign hostages were killed, one Algerian security guard and 29 members of the Brigade itself.
U.S. intelligence in the form of the "FBI" wants
to behave in Algeria the way it does in Pakistan, Tunisia, Somalia, Libya,
Qatar, the Gulf emirates and other Arab and Muslim countries. After the
events in In Amenas, they took the opportunity to
ask to come to Algeria to investigate and develop a security picture of the
situation. The Americans weren't mistaken in their calculations, and they didn't
flag in their efforts to take the pulse of Algeria in the hopes of treating it
the way they treat many other Arab countries. Algeria's rejection of their request
was quick.
Here it is necessary to refer to the many ways Arabs
humiliate themselves before the Americans to the point where some Arab rulers
allow them to bomb their own populations, like in Yemen, and to accept American
deployment on their soil to destroy another Arab country, as still others bring
in the Americans to establish military bases on their soil and even pay their
expenses. And we must note something very important with regard to Algeria's
foreign policy: It hasn't departed from the blessed principles of its
revolution, which is based on the right of the people to decide their own fate,
not interfere in the domestic affairs of neighboring countries, support movements
of national liberation and refuse to involve itself in international alliances.
In many important historic turning points, Algeria has had a
privileged and noble position that has never changed. Regarding the Palestinian
situation, Algeria was and remains faithful to its position of approving and
supporting all efforts to recover Palestinian rights. It hasn't hesitated in the
performance of its political and material support. Its position is clearer,
stronger and more unambiguous than many Palestinian factions. It has never compromised
on the Palestinian issue, and perhaps many of its domestic and international
problems are a result of its hard and fast stand on the Palestinian issue.
And things don't stop there. While outside the purview of
this article, one could mention dozens of situations that show the clear and
unhesitant positions taken by Algeria. For example, the war in
Bosnia-Herzegovina, where America incited Muslims there to rebel against the
racist central government. The Western and American intention was to destroy an
advanced industrial country -Yugoslavia - which had a different system than Western
capitalism. During that period, Algeria needed Western and American support to confront
its own internal difficulties, but there again, principles came first, and
Algeria didn't welcome the idea of splitting up the independent country of
Yugoslavia.
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Now there is a new test for Algerian diplomacy and Algerian
decision makers - and a new victory for them, too. Algeria refused NATO's offer
to help in the pursuit of “the terrorists,” and Algeria rejects calls by U.S.
intelligence to participate in the investigation. U.S. officials forgot that several
years ago, when the White House announced that it would subject Algerians
traveling to the United States to humiliating inspections, Algeria said that it
would implement of policy of reciprocity, treating Americans coming to Algeria to precisely
the same procedures. The U.S. administration then backtracked from those procedures
regarding Algerians.
All the free and noble men of Algeria have the right to take
pride in their nation's positions in the region and the world. In many ways, those
are positions that set a standard for foreign policy. May Allah protect
Algeria.
