Algerian Islamic parties call for ban on alcohol imports
10/10/2008
Algeria's Islamic politicians renewed their call for the 2009 budget to include a law banning the import of alcoholic products in the country, El Khabar reported on Thursday (October 9th). They want to limit alcohol imports to medical and industrial use.
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ahmed /batna Posted 2008-10-11
Banning the import of alcohol based on petrodollars and the cabaret dancers of Riadh el Fousk in Algiers during Ramadan is good for our religion and the spirit of 1954. A cabaret owner successfully received a bank loan for 39 billion from the Algerian Foreign Bank (BEA) in Algiers for a studio without a kitchen or a toilet by having two prostitutes/dancers/pimps meet the four BEA directors. –From Algiers
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