I am sorry to say that i am so discussed by the US media! I am originaly Algerian and i lived in Europe and North America for many years now. Let me tell you first of all that GHARDIA is a city in the extreme south of Algeria (In the desert) which is about nealy 800km away from Algiers (the capital), and NOT a MARKET!. Northern Algeria is all green with mountains and beautiful mediteranean beaches, and women do not necessarily all dress like the picture you are presenting in the article. Lots of them dress in a westernised way (i.e. short miny skirts! and bikinis on the beach!) and others choose to wear what they call a modern veil (fashionable head scarves), so this is to give a little image first about the physical appearance of women. Algeria hosts several diplomats and business men and it was common that several of those had affairs with local ladies. Respectable women, not necessarily trying to run away from local men who dont respect them! but women who have preference to western guys just as several american men like asian women! bottom line is, this CIA agent should have never gone away with his CRIME! the US politic is totaly hypocrit choosing to punish the others but not its own people!
Imagine if an Algerian diplomat in Washington has done the same thing! he will be kicked off the states the next day and it will be all over the news (including YOUR newspaper first) and the american media will start investigations and trying to show how algerian people mistreat their women! I just find it insane how the american media reacts, is that the aim of justice? are you people on any oath to say the truth and only the truth do you even realise all the damage you are causing to the international relations of those countries?...i guess you dont as long as you get your pay cheques and nobody hits you with a missile or rapes your daughters! Imagine if this agent's victim was your own daughter? wont you go to the UN asking for some stupide official international appologies? or even to go on trial against the entire organisation which employes this agressor??! This man would have never gone to MY country and raped MY own people if the CIA did not send him their for work. This man would have never had access to those drugs and materials if the US governement did not provide it to him! So, the CIA is to be blamed and judged! of course, in an IDEAL world where justice is above all human beings and not just poorer countries! I dont know if Mr OBAMA will be changing the american international policies but if you americans dont want to disappear from this civilisation, then you better start to respect human beings. History has shown how the greatest imperialists have fallen, Rome, Greece, Egypt...etc today the US is being an imperialist and it will fall much sooner if it doesnt decide to be a part of the humanity and help this world to create a better future.
God bless justice
The Spy and the Sex Scandal
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He seemed just the sort of spy the CIA is looking for to fight the war on terror. Andrew Warren is a 6-foot-4 African-American schooled in the martial arts. Steeped in Middle Eastern history, he is a convert to Islam who speaks six Arabic dialects. He was a natural to be the CIA's top man in Algiers, a North Africa listening post and frequent hotbed of terrorists. He told his friends that he entered the U.S. Foreign Service—his cover story—because he wanted to be "at the center of things."
Last week, he emerged at the center of a lurid scandal deeply embarrassing to the United States. According to an affidavit signed by a State Department security investigator, in the past two years Warren allegedly drugged and then raped two Algerian women. Though the CIA won't confirm it, numerous U.S. government officials acknowledged to NEWSWEEK the revelation, first reported by ABC News correspondent Brian Ross, that Warren was serving in Algiers as CIA station chief.
Warren, who has not publicly commented, has not been charged with any crime. But the affidavit is damning. Two women told investigators that while visiting Warren at his official U.S. government residence in Algiers, Warren plied them with cocktails, which eventually caused them to vomit and pass out. One woman woke up naked in a bedroom and found a used condom in a nearby trash can. The court affidavit describes in hard-core detail how the other victim remembers drifting in and out of consciousness as Warren sexually assaulted her. Warren was called back to Washington last October; during a subsequent search of his Algiers home, investigators found what appeared to be evidence of "tradecraft" more associated with stalkers than spies: multiple computer drives and data-storage devices, a handbook on the investigation of sexual assaults and quantities of Xanax and Valium—tranquilizers that government experts claim are commonly used in date-rape assaults.
Warren is an aspiring author as well as a spy. Eight years ago, he published a pulp thriller called "The People of the Veil." The hero of the book is a U.S. diplomat, based in Algiers, who battles terrorists trying to take over the U.S. Embassy. In a subplot, the hero, Nick Phillips, has an affair with Mariam, a beautiful Algerian woman who shunned Arab men ("because they were too controlling") but fell in love with Nick because he "respected her and treated her as an equal," and who "never pressured her and understood her culture." Speaking anonymously in order to be candid, one of Warren's former instructors at the "Farm," where spies are trained, told NEWSWEEK that Warren was "a loose cannon" whose confidence "bordered on narcissism." Still, he added, people at the agency "are crushed by this." A former academic mentor, Professor William Alexander of Norfolk State University, described Warren as "an incredible person" and said that he had been working on a second novel.
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