But it is worrying that the BBC, like the rest of the media, are failing to see the global systemic nature of the crisis and the need for European and global co-operation to forge a truly post-national response.
Moreover, police officials say they are investigating whether Algerian operatives also set up a clandestine operation here to forge passports and credit cards to finance terrorist operations.
The motivations for some of these companies to release data to investigators are to learn more about their own clients and operations or to forge deals in which the researchers look at questions of interest to them.
Even though the city is small, it's specialization in this category makes it a hub for businesses looking to forge operations in South America.
Both companies operate in Texas; their combination would create America's biggest independent generator of power.Investors speculated that Microsoft may seek to buy the search-engine operations of Yahoo! or try to forge partnerships in other areas.
Masood Khalili, Afghanistan's ambassador to Turkey, told the state-run news agency Anatolian the aim of the meeting was to "forge co-operation that might lead to reconciliation in the region.
But the spat, only one of several that have dogged discussions within NATO about industrial co-operation, bodes ill for efforts to forge a common approach to other new defence challenges.The Europeans' reaction is prickly partly because they are so conscious of the problems of their own defence industries.
There has been a rush to provide funding and training for new police and paramilitary recruits and an effort to forge better co-operation among the authorities in those states affected by insurgents.
The only way to do it will be to forge closer co-operation among the groups that design Sony's gadgets, and to get them, in turn, to pay more attention to the demands that open-source software will place on their designs.Yet this leads back to the second obstacle facing Mr Idei.
You do not need to be a genius to see that international development would be as friendless as it was in the 1980s, a decade when Britain cut its budget, and undermined attempts, such as the Brandt report, to forge international co-operation on aid, trade and development.
It has to forge partnerships, expand its operations and — perhaps the most difficult part — get a ton of people using it so the unit economics show some significant progress at scale.
