The two great gas powers of the Arab world are Qatar and Algeria. Yet at the Gas Exporting Countries Forum last year, and in this year's Libyan revolution, Qatar has dealt its rival two resounding defeats. These embarrassing outcomes have shown the ruling military junta in Algeria to be incompetent, not just in its management of the oil sector and the economy, but also in foreign policy.
Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's wife, Safiya, daughter Aisha and sons Hannibal and Mohammed, gained refuge in Algeria, although reportedly Col Qaddafi himself was refused entry.
This continues Algeria's incoherent stance on Libya, in which professed neutrality and hopes for a multilateral solution have alternated with moral and, it seems, material aid to the Qaddafi regime.
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