Author: Keenan, Jeremy

Source: Focaal, Volume 2006, Number 48, Winter 2006 , pp. 144-151(8)

Publisher: Berghahn Journals

Abstract:

This article, based on almost eight years of continuous anthropological research amongst the Tuareg people of the Sahara and Sahel, suggests that the launch by the US and its main regional ally, Algeria, in 2002-2003 of a 'new', 'second', or 'Saharan' Front in the 'War on Terror' was largely a fabrication on the part of the US and Algerian military intelligence services. The 'official truth', embodied in an estimated 3,000 articles and reports of one sort or another, is largely disinformation. The article summarizes how and why this deception was effected and examines briefly its implications for both the region and its people as well as the future of US international relations and especially its global pursuance of an increasingly suspect 'War on Terror'.

Keywords: ALGERIA; DISINFORMATION; SAHARA; TUAREG; 'WAR ON TERROR'

Document Type: Short communication

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/092012906780646280

Publication date: 2006-12-01

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• Focaal advocates an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision, and is rooted in debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history and the incorporation of local settings in wider spatial networks of coercion, imagination, and exchange. While encouraging contributions on all world regions, it is unique among anthropology journals for its affiliation with 'anthropology at home' and studies of 'the West', Europe and post-socialism. The journal is also interested in issues of globalization, imperialism, and associated violent and disruptive processes, as well as their ramifications for local research settings and for theory and method.
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