Not to mention Libya. That's a place with the potential to go haywire in ways never before seen. Although perhaps not as long as oil is in the market and The Beloved Guide can still form approximately coherent sentences.

On Algeria, I think this marks the GSPC's final descent into secterist lunacy. I mean, butchering not soldiers but police recruits? That'll be hard to frame as a defense against international Zionism... They can't possibly hope to achieve anything except their own complete marginalization by these methods. Popular support they can kiss goodbye, low as it was already, and the regime won't fall since it has giant proven reserves of oil, gas and ruthlessness. Except perhaps if they accidentally manage to kill off Bouteflika, Toufik or other mammoths and thereby disrupt the state & army, but that's betting everything on sheer luck -- not a strategy. No, clearly, they've stopped planning for success and gone in completely for Salafi magic thinking.