A man walks by electoral posters in Algiers, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Algeria is gearing up for parliamentary elections on Thursday that promise to be the freest ever. But the legacy of the 1991 elections nearly won by Islamists before a military coup ended the voting hangs heavy: Memories still fester of how Islamist candidates were thrown into prison and the nation plunged into more than a decade of civil war.(AP Photo/Sidali Djarboub)