After Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, many had thought that Algeria was the next stop of the Storm Revolution. But that slab!, Apart from a few temporary events at the beginning of February.
However … In its edition last Saturday, the “daily newspaper of Algeria” published an article whose title means everything: “The storm is fast approaching”. The storm is obviously the revolution.
According to this Algerian newspaper, the country’s regime has already lost all credit and credibility with the international community, following the Algerian position on the Libyan conflict. The image of the country is almost tarnished in international opinion as evidenced by the statements of Alain Juppé, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs. The latter highlighted the “ambiguous attitude” of the Algerian authorities during the Libyan crisis and in particular the fact that they do not recognize the National Transitional Council.
Bouteflika’s government therefore knows that the first serious challenge in the Algerian streets, everything will be linked to a crazy speed.
On the other hand, the pro-boutflika media have now launched a war against the Qatari chain Al Jazeera as the front page of the newspaper Ennahar “The people want the fall of Al Jazeera”. These media clearly explain that the chain is the source of problems in Algeria and that it is she who has been running the country for decades. We also remember the attack suffered by the official page of Al Jazeera on Facebook with a stream of huge messages on all links on the page, one with 30 thousand comments, in an hour.
In addition, the encryption of the news channel began in small touches of 5 to 20 minutes, just to avoid an international conviction.
The daily finished its article by comparing Algeria to a police station managed by officers of manipulation, diversion and repression.
