Algeria fetes 50 years of independence from France  July 5, 2012
- 5:37 AM Algeria France  Fireworks light over a port as Algeria
marks 50 years of independence in Algiers, early Thursday, July
5, 2012. As the Muslim North African nation celebrates 50 years
of nationhood on Thursday, Algeria and France are locked in a
war of memories that still weighs on lives on both sides of the
Mediterranean, and on the two countries' ties. (AP Photo/Anis
Belghoul)  ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Three grainy photos showing
French soldiers torturing an Algerian and hanging in an official
exhibit in Paris are perhaps the closest public reckoning France
has made of the darkest period of its colonial history.  As the
Muslim North African nation celebrates 50 years of nationhood on
Thursday, the two countries are locked in a war of memories that
still weighs on lives on both sides of the Mediterranean, and on
the two countries' ties.  There have been no apologies for the
brutal eight-year war that ended 132 years of French rule in Al