Algeria

Algeria's "Dark Decade" of Civil War

By Adrian Raeside, 'The Victoria Times Colonist', Canada, 1999

The Victoria Times seems like the only publication in the Western World that covered the Algerioan torror.

By Plaid Klaus, Illustrator, New York CIty, 1999

Depicted: Abdelaziz Bouteflika became President of Algeria in 1999. As President, he presided over the end of the bloody Algerian civil war.

Jordan

By Kerry Waghorn, 'The San Francisco Chronicle', 1999

King Hussein II of Jordan laid to rest, February 7, 1999.

By Steve Greenburg, 'The SeattlePost-Intelligence', February 8, 1999

King Hussein was succeeded by his son Crown Price Abdullah II.