Why Has Algeria Acted As A Refuge For The Gaddafi Clan?

My own view is that they fear the domino effect. The Algerian government is also a secular dictatorship who don't want a Western-driven Arab Spring. If (when) Gaddafi falls, they may be next. What a perversion exists in Algeria compared to that which was envisioned by the heroic FLN in the 50s and 60s. Boumedienne, Ben Bella and Krim are spinning in their graves. So much for my thoughts - here are the views of a professional, Robert Fisk: ''Algeria itself possesses the eighth-largest natural gas reserves in the world and is the fourth-largest gas exporter. Beneath its deserts lie 12.5 billion barrels of oil reserves and 27 per cent of current oil exports are bought by the United States. Algerians are well aware that if Libya's national export was potatoes, the West would no more have intervened than it would have invaded Iraq if Saddam Hussein's principal resource was asparagus.'' More.