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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2026-100
Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:
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Other issues:
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Ukraine:
AI-Bezzle:
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Iran) thread …
From the Iran open thread Posted by: fanto | May 19 2026 1:36 utc | 116
the investigation of that crime was stalled by French and US governments.
Algeria’s Trappist Monk Massacre: The Case That Won’t Go Away – FPIF
I read the linked article and frankly, I have questions about your intentions. Are you running a campaign against Algeria?
The article dates from 2013 and is perfectly in line with the times.
France was campaigning to accuse Algeria of war crimes even though there was no war officially but “a terrorism crisis”, and the US was making the same accusations but insinuating French complicity.
Both had the same objective: to put the Algerian government on the defensive in order to obtain concessions, even though it was categorical in its opposition to any presence of foreign forces on its soil and was Russia’s exclusive ally in arms purchases.
The Algerian civil war began as a so-called “terrorist” crisis, before being called a civil war many years after.
In reality, it was simpler. The military power inherited from the war of liberation against France allowed an Islamist political party to exist and campaign, and to their great surprise, this party won the elections.
So, they “cancelled” these elections with the blessing of the West to prevent them from governing, which led them to take up arms.
They were labeled “terrorists” and treated as such, and the army’s loss of control was such that weapons were even distributed to the population. This make it difficult to say who killed who during the events.
Peace agreements and several amnesties were necessary to resolve the situation, so deeply had all the groups engaged in massacres and settling of scores.
But oddly, in the case of the French monks, there was never any doubt as to who was responsible for their deaths, since it was claimed and accepted by a group.
Everything contained in this article is therefore nothing but a pile of unfounded allegations to accuse the Algerian government.
Why is this resurfacing now, and why are you bringing it up again on MoA?
Because, once again, Western powers want to put pressure on Algeria to collaborate on their projects.
This country has enshrined in its constitution the rejection of any foreign military presence on its territory, and the US would very much like to see that changed.
Despite the fact that the US military, and the Israeli IDF as well, are based in neighboring Morocco, they cannot do as they please in the Sahel and Libya from there.
They would also like to be able to control Algerian oil and gas, which is respectively the second and first largest producer on the continent.
Algeria has protected itself by nationalizing everything, even more so than the Chavez laws in Venezuela.
The pressure campaign began as soon as the Trump administration took office, announcing its intention to sanction Algeria for purchasing Russian weapons.
Yet, this has been the situation since Algeria’s independence, and even before, as Russia was the only country willing to supply arms to independence movements.
Algeria countered very fast by signing military cooperation agreements, intelligence agreements, and arms purchase agreements with the US.
It also awarded contracts in the hydrocarbons sector to American companies. But this does not satisfy our globalists, who want control.
The reopening of this issue should therefore be seen within the context of this pressure campaign on Algeria, in the same vein as the accusations against the Russians of using Novichok against Skripal, or the alleged assassinations of Indian exiles in Canada.
It should be noted that Algeria’s isolationism irritates many people, including its major partner, Russia, which would like to see this country intervene more in its neighborhood.
This is the reason for the rejection of his candidacy for the BRICS.
We in the Sahel also criticize him for allowing jihadists to cross from Libya into Mali after Khadafi death, and for not helping us counter them now.
But just as the ban on foreign military presence is prohibited, the Algerian constitution forbids sending military contingents abroad.
And it certainly won’t give control of its oil to Trump, especially since he has aligned himself with recognizing sovereignty of Morocco over the Western Sahra claimed by the local independentists backed by Algeria, the only issue in the region that matters to him.
This is a campaign with a typically Western mindset that has little chance of working with Algeria.
So I return to my question: are you voluntarily participating in a pressure campaign against Algeria, to spread those accusations of war crimes 30 years ago, or are you simply taking up an issue brought back into the media spotlight by others recently ?
Posted by: Sebgo | May 19 2026 6:09 utc | 109
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