Algeria strives for oil security

Despite a recent attack on foreign oil workers in Algiers, and a government that is struggling after a civil war in the 1990s, world demand for oil and natural gas will likely drive foreign companies to endure risks and remain in energy-rich Algeria.

‘Undoubtedly, undermining the economy is one of the objectives [of those attacks]. A stable economy is an essential element if Algeria is to recover from the mayhem of the revolution and heal its wounds. But there is more. Radical political Islamism is still a potent force. The movement is still dreaming of establishing an Islamist Algeria. They have not given up even though their violence has cost them the bulk of their popular support,’Jean-Robert Leguey-Feilleux, a professor at Saint Louis University in St. Louis and an expert on international terrorism and the Middle East, said.
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