Perhaps strangest was the incident in the mixed zone immediately after the U.S.-Algeria match. Algeria defender Rafik Saifi simply walked over and slapped Asma Halimi, an Algerian journalist. She, in turn, hit him back, scratching his nose.
The two have a history, as the blog Sports by Brooks details, reaching back to when Halimi reported that Saifi was set to marry a French woman — news that Saifi was trying to conceal in Algeria, where such a union might not play well among some anti-French elements of the populace.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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