MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Scheherazade Daneshkhu in Paris, Financial Times, January 9
Nicolas Sarkozy, French president, condemned as “barbaric terrorism” the killing of two French hostages in Niger on Saturday, after a rescue mission to release them from forces thought to be linked to al-Qaeda in the in the Islamic Maghreb failed....