After a decade in exile, former Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella made a rousing return last week, calling on the government to resign and urging citizens to support Iraq's Saddam Hussein. "Telephone the Iraqis, send telegrams and tell them you are with them," he said in an hour-long speech in Algiers. "Go by the hundreds of thousands to the Iraqi embassy, and don't leave until they sign you up as volunteers."
One of the most charismatic leaders of the eight-year revolution against France, Ben Bella (known as Aminedi, or Invisible One) became Algeria's first President in 1963. Ineffective in office, he...
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