Residents stand near a damaged Moorish house in the

Residents stand near a damaged Moorish house in the Algiers Casbah June 28, 2008. From cutlass and canon to earthquake and flood, powerful forces have long done damage to the Algiers Casbah, fabled bastion of Barbary pirates who plied the Mediterranean for centuries in defiance of European power. But the deadliest of the many blows suffered by Algiers' disintegrating old quarter may actually be contemporary neglect by successive governments of modern Algeria. Picture taken June 28.
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