Articles > Newspapers > U.S. Newspapers, Special Interest > The Sunday Herald articles > September 2009

Article: 4 CORNERS

Article from:
The Sunday Herald
Article date:
September 6, 2009
Author:
Copyright

IN June I made my annual trip to the Andalucian coast in Southern Spain.

Its towns of Tarifa and Algeciras are major transit points to North Africa and the bustling port of Tangiers which lies a few miles across the Mediterranean.

Every day in these narrow straits, Spanish coastguard vessels and military helicopters are on the lookout for boatloads of illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa.

The increased security presence of the last few years is also aimed at monitoring any nfiltration into Spain by Islamist terrorist groups or individuals coming from Morocco and North Africa.

Since the 2004 Madrid train bombings, Spain has beefed up security operations Its intelligence agencies ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

Article: An adventure in north Africa and southern ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  August 11, 2006 ;     644 words ...THE TRESURES OF MOROCCO AND SOUTHERN SPAIN Seven nights departing November 12, 2006, and March 18 and 25, 2007. Price from pounds 589. THE sights and sounds of not just ...

Article: Tangiers in 24 hours; When in southern Spain, why ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  June 26, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... it's only half an hour's ferry ride from southern Spain to North Africa, it seems as if you've travelled hundreds ... about wealthy Americans sunning themselves in North Africa which was later filmed starring John Malkovich ...

Article: Fireball lights up sky over Spain and North Africa
AP Worldstream;  January 29, 2003 ;     448 words ... ... Spain A stunningly brilliant fireball _ probably caused by a chunk of falling asteroid _ lit up the skies of southern Spain and North Africa this week, treating stargazers and the unsuspecting to a rare and colorful celestial event. The flash Monday ...

Article: BRENNTAG BUILDS IN SPAIN.(to build regional logistics center in ...
Chemical Week;  February 28, 2001 ;     700 words ... ... restructure its activities in southern Spain by building a regional ... distribution centers in southern Spain that "could no longer ... new site will supply southern Spain, southern Portugal, the Canary Islands, and North Africa. "The center will ...

Passengers wait in the port of Algeciras, southern Spain, ...
Getty Images;  December 24, 2006 ;     257 words ... ... wait in the port of Algeciras, southern Spain, during ... Full Size JPG ... wait in the port of Algeciras, southern Spain, during Christmas traffic ... city of Ceuta, an enclave in North Africa. AFP PHOTO / JOSE LUIS ROCA ...

Article: Walking in the movies; Take a new hike in southern ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  March 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... and an unscheduled skirmish with illegal harpoonists, and the picture pans out in glorious Technicolor. Looking more like North Africa than Spain, this area has its eye firmly on the camera - spaghetti Westerns were made up the road in the Tabernas region ...

Article: My family memories of Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson in Malaga, ...
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... AND RAISED in Malaga, a city on the Mediterranean coast in the south of Spain, not far from the Strait of Gibraltar and North Africa (Morocco). Some years ago I moved with my family to Brussels to work as an official in the European Commission, one of ...

Article: IBRC TAKES STUDENTS TO NORTH AFRICA TO LEARN ABOUT ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... on a short study tour from Egypt to southern Spain. They were led by Louis Nzegwu, professor ... students on the short study tour to North Africa was to introduce them to a whole new ... more common over the past few years. North Africa, by contrast, is practically a well ...

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!

Find articles, research, and archives