Did Algeria dope its World Cup soccer team to distract attention from protests?

Algerian upset a result of doping?

By James M. Dorsey

Arab autocratic regimes responded back in the 1980s to a wave of Islamist-inspired protests with little less brutality than some have done this year, but in the case of Algeria perhaps with greater ingenuity in a bid to engineer an Algerian soccer success that would distract attention from the proteste…