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Bush's Imaginary Front in the War on Terror

By Jeremy Keenan, Foreign Policy in Focus. Posted September 28, 2006.


After the U.S. secured the release of 32 tourists who had been taken hostage in Algeria, the White House dramatically -- and falsely -- labeled it a success in the 'war on terror.'

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FPIF contributor Jeremy Keenan is a teaching fellow in archaeology and anthropology at Bristol University. He is also a visiting professor at the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies at Exeter University where he is director of the Saharan Studies program. His book "Alice of the Sahara: Moving Mirrors and the USA War on Terror in the Sahara" will be published by Pluto Press in 2007.

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