The United States has been examining how Algeria overcame a decade-long war with Islamic insurgents. U.S. officials and analysts agreed that Algeria has largely defeated the Islamic insurgency, which has drawn support from Al Qaida. They said Algeria has employed brute force, relentless military operations, psychological warfare as well as incentives to weaken, divide and demoralize the insurgency movement. "The U.S. is stepping-up its relationship with the Algerian government, largely through counter-terrorism cooperation," Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the House Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation, said. "U.S. officials have said that there are lessons to be learned from Algeria's struggle with terrorism."
| Yeah. Those lessons are to hunt them down and kill them, concentrating on the head cheeses. The GAI and GSPC went through supreme leaders pretty rapidly. |
Royce discussed U.S. cooperation with Algerian officials during his visit to Algeria in January 2005. Congressional leaders have supported plans by the Bush administration to increase defense and security cooperation with Algeria to facilitate the war against Al Qaida. In 2004, the administration approved the export of several unidentified non-lethal military systems to Algeria.
| Prior to that, the Algerians were largely using shoe leather express to chase the bastards down. |
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