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December 13, 2011

AP: Algeria's Islamists hope for election victory

by Aomar Ouali
The Associated Press

ALGIERS, Algeria—Algeria's Islamists, buoyed by election victories of their brethren across North Africa over the past two months, are looking to triumph themselves next spring in nationwide polls.

But Algeria's Islamists have a bloody legacy of history to overcome -- and that complicates their efforts to replicate Islamist breakthroughs in Tunisia and Morocco.

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