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Scores of people have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in the Algerian capital [AFP]
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The North African wing of the al-Qaeda terror network has claimed responsibility for the recent car bombings in Algeria.
The claim was made on Thursday through an audio recording by a member of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb called Salah Abu Mohammad.
The group, known until last year as Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, claimed responsibility for the two car bomb blasts on Wednesday in the town of Bouira, southeast of the capital Algiers.
The attacks killed 12 people and wounded 42 others.
The group has also claimed several earlier attacks including the twin suicide bombings of United Nations offices and a court building in the Algerian capital last December.
The Bouira bombings followed a spate of attacks including a bombing at the entrance of a police school on Tuesday that killed and wounded dozens of people, and ambushes on Sunday that killed 11.
The urban bombings reflect new tactics first adopted in 2007 by fighters in the North African country, a key oil and gas supplier to Europe.
Violence began in Algeria in 1992 when a military-backed government scrapped elections that a radical Islamic party was poised to win.
About 150,000 people have died in the ensuing violence.
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22/08/2008 |
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ALGERIE LIBRE DEMOCRATIQUE |
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Not to indifference, Encore bereaved families,
This is another sad news just yet upset me and trace the nightmares that I managed enfouiller past ten years. Years where I saw people change, children born, countries open up and develop. But my beautiful country and its people have remained prey to bloody fanatics. Believe me my dear (e) friend (s) that this will destroy forever the lives of dozens of families who could have been mine or yours. This is not acceptable, this is not at all |
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22/08/2008 |
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algerie libre democratique |
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this is not at all acceptable that just happen to Issers, and in many other cities. It is a shame for our nation and we have a responsibility. This is not acceptable and I repeat with a big anger. These innocent people should have the right to live, enjoy their life is not acceptable that some people with all pretexts and justifications in their possession can decide when and how to remove what they received from heaven as the best gift that is life. Someone may explain why it is taking to young |
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Algeria |
22/08/2008 |
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djazair houra democratia |
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Someone may explain why it is taking to young men who were going to pass an exam? Or why this barbarity, this blind ignorance !!!!???? These fanatics would no longer have any place in our country. What judges must withdraw their Algerian nationality, their bodies are no longer buried on our soil
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Algeria |
23/08/2008 |
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ALGERIE LIBRE DEMOCRATIQUE |
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A terror that we are undergoing, we must remain standing. They have stolen the joy of life, to love our country, to love our neighbors, our fellow citizens. The history we learned to resist all invaders and colonizers. Over the past two decades, the enemy has arisen in our own homeland and we will resist him the same way.
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RAFFEY
United States |
22/08/2008 |
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Alqeada claims algeria attacks |
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Why wont alqeada enter e.congo or rawanda why infiltrate a weakend society were resistance is low. |
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