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Russ Feingold: “It's important to remember the context of that country's experience, with an extremely bloody civil war in the 1990s.”

On the recordNovember 16, 2009
It's important to remember the context of that country's experience, with an extremely bloody civil war in the 1990s.
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Russ Feingold
Democratic · Wisconsin

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Feingold highlights Algeria's past civil war as a factor affecting AQIM's recruitment.

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