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Article: Yearender: Algeria's national reconciliation policy challenged by bombings
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- December 16, 2007
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Yearender: Algeria's national reconciliation policy challenged by
bombings
by Shi Jianguo
ALGIERS, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Thirty-seven people, including 17 UN
staff, have been confirmed killed and more than 170 others were
injured in the two car bombings striking Algeria on Tuesday morning,
the worst terrorist attack the North African country has suffered in
2007.
Before this incident, six other major deadly attacks in this
country this year, with three in September and the other three in
February, April and July, had killed more than 96 people and injured
more than 390 others.
The country used to struggle with the extremists for many
yearssince 1992 after the then military-backed ...