Algerians in Iraq

In The Foreigner's Gift Fouad Ajami points out that of the foreign jihadists who had come to Iraq to fight the Americans, "The forensic evidence disclosed that up to 20 percent of the suicide car bombers came from Algeria. That North African country, worlds away, was now spilling into Iraq. It had had its own terrible war between the secular autocrats in the saddle and the Islamists. The rulers had won in a scorched-earth war. Now the thwarted Islamists had found a new battleground." [p 48].

Yet who, here in America, knows anything about Algeria or its troubles? Or cares?

For that matter, who in France?

Beware the curse of history.