Algeria Again…Car Bomb Rips Up Police Station
Whether or not it is Al Qaeda behind this one yet remains to be seen, waiting for them to claim it. They claimed the twin bombings last month shortly afterward, but it wouldn’t surprise anyone if it was AQ.
Algiers sticks of AQ shit.
ALGIERS, Algeria - A car bomb exploded near a police station in a town east of the Algerian capital Wednesday, killing at least four officers and ripping off the building’s facade, witnesses said.
The blast followed twin suicide bombings on Dec. 11 at U.N. offices and a government building that killed at least 37 people in the capital of Algiers.
A journalist and another resident in the city of Naciria said the car sped toward the police station and exploded. The two spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared for their safety.
The Interior Ministry said the attack killed at least four police officers and injured 20, including eight police officers. The ministry provided no details other than to say that the bombing was near the police station in the town about 45 miles east of Algiers.
The explosion tore off the front of the police station and damaged neighboring buildings. Security forces cordoned off the rubble-strewn ruins.
The suicide bombings in December and others in April were claimed by al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa, which emerged out of an alliance between Osama bin Laden’s international terror network and a local Islamic insurgency movement known as the Salafist Group for Call and Combat.
Security forces have been on maximum alert since earlier this week, after three trucks were stolen in the Algiers region, the newspaper Liberte reported Wednesday. The vehicles included a fuel tanker, and officials fear they might be used in suicide attacks, the report said.
(AP)
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Could be a Disgruntled injured worker?
I’ve heard they’re trying out Hillary’s Workman’s Compensation Plan!
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm