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THOItiPSOn • CODTinUED FROfTl 4 is what K.T. and I took.” Mitchell testified that after ’ questioning on Feb. 28, Thompson retracted earlier statements that he had no knowledge of the missing items and offered to return certain items. Thompson returned the TV/DVD combo taken from the apartment of McArdle and LaRocque, while Mainord returned the Apple sign, the Apex TV, and three new DVDs. Mainord also wrote an apology letter to each set of apartment residents, saying in his , letter to McArdle and LaRocque 9 he did not remove items from their room but would help pay for them. “1 was writing to tell you that I didn’t take things out of your room, but I was with Moe when he did,” he said. Testimony resumes today, with the prosecution calling its final witnesses and the defense beginning to present its case. ALGERIA • COnTinUED FROdl I country faced a 30-percent unemployment rate for a population three-fourths of which was under 35. “In Algeria, we had a profession of leaning against a wall. Many of our young people had no work, and when they saw the wealthy drive by on vacation, they knew it — they were nobody,” he said. “Then a terrorist comes up to them one day, and hands them a gun as a gift. Then that young man is the king of the neighborhood.” After the first parliamentary election in 1991, the Algerian army, fearful of the FIS taking power and, according to Fellah, “creating the first Islamic Algerian state,” cancelled the second round of elections in January 1992. The government outlawed the FIS, arresting thousands of party members and sympathizers. Armed Islamic groups arose in the mountains and villages, throwing the country into chaos for 10 years. Fellah spoke passionately about how a major militia, the Islamic Armed Group (GIA) began to systematically intimidate and target civilians and pro-democratic intellectuals. “In Islam, you are traditionally buried in a white cloth. These journalists (and other democracy advocates), they would receive a white handkerchief in the mail. If you received this little handkerchief, it only meant one thing — you were next on the list.” Fellah recounted details of how guerillas eliminated all resistance to an Islamic state similar to Iran. A friend of the family, a pro-democratic journalist, was visited by Islamic guerrillas, who knocked down his door and executed him by slitting his throat with a wooden stick. Though peace was declared in 2002, Fellah said he feels there is no redress for him or the families of the approximately 100,000 casualties. Negotiations between the Algerian government and rebel - groups produced a decree of amnesty for insurgents, without the need for them to confess to crimes committed during 15 years of bloody conflict. A charter voted on at the end of September this year pardons all aggressors in the civil war, whether they murdered one policeman or massacred a village. “Justice should be rendered. Impunity is just not acceptable,” Fellah said. He said the settling peace in Algeria reveals how radical Islam has pervaded the Social system of its citizens. Fellah referenced a recent decisionjo make religious education mandatory in Algerian elementary and secondary schools. Insofar as international assistance to the North African country was concerned, Fellah had nothing but stinging criticism for the United Nations, where he worked for a decade before quitting over complains of corruption. “When (U.S. Ambassador) John Bolton said ‘if you .took out 10 floors of the U.N. building, no one would notice,’ I think he was being very generous. If you gave that building to Donald Trump, he would know what to do with it!” Fellah quipped. « “The U.N. established a counter-terrorism committee, but it’s just another bureaucracy ... . They travel to beautiful places like Morocco or Kenya, and draw up reports,” he sighed. “The counter-terrorism committee might as well be a pro-tourism committee.” Fellah said only a return to an open, democratic education could possibly return Algeria to stability and rescue it from becoming a potentially violent Islamic state. “What we need is to engage in a true intellectual revolution, and to do that you need to educate people ... . 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