Ali Belhadj

His partner Ali Belhadj also wants a say but is under tight control at home...

Boutef has tried hard to win over Islamist voters who backed the Front Islamique du Salut led by Sheikh Abbasi Madani and Ali Belhadj until it was banned in 1992...

The released Front Islamique du Salut (FIS) leaders Abbasi Madani and Ali Belhadj are mobilising support...

FIS leaders Abbasi Madani and Ali Belhadj were released in July after twelve years in gaol...

Also on the agenda is how to cope with the release of two more of Algeria's historic chiefs when they complete their gaol sentences on 12 June: the banned Front Islamique du Salut (FIS) leaders Abbasi Madani and Ali Belhadj...

War will increase the sort of volatility Boutef has worked hard to overcome making the expected June release of the Front Islamique du Salut leaders Abbasi Madani and Ali Belhadj a more intense event than seemed likely a few weeks ago...

Conflict in Kabylia shows the crisis is not only a conflict with Islamists yet the key date is due in June when the banned Front Islamique du Salut leaders Abbasi Madani (74) and Ali Belhadj (44) should be released after twelve years...

FIS leaders are excluded from any hint of power and the hard line has prompted even the leader of the radical anti-Islamist Parti des Travailleurs Louisa Hanoun to call for easing of the tough prison regime imposed on FIS leader Ali Belhadj...

Abdelkader Hachani number three in the FIS after Abbasi Madani (under house arrest and apparently seeking retirement) and the gaoled Ali Belhadj had sought this throughout 1998-99...

He was the leading Islamist at liberty nominally number three in the banned Front Islamique du Salut but a more credible figure than ageing leader Abbasi Madani or gaoled preacher Ali Belhadj...