Girls pose in front of damaged moorish house in the Algiers Casbah
Girls pose in front of a damaged moorish house in the Algiers Casbah March 15, 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. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra(ALGERIA)