Article: Al-Qaida bombs Algerian prime minister's office

ALGIERS, Algeria -- Al-Qaida's new wing in North Africa claimed responsibility for suicide bombings that ripped through the prime minister's office and a police station in Algeria on Wednesday, killing at least 24 people. The attacks highlighted the menacing spread of Islamic militancy across North Africa.

One car bombing tore holes in the walls of the prime minister's office, where people in bloodstained clothes stumbled toward ambulances. Two other vehicles exploded outside a police station east of the capital, blasting craters in the ground and damaging the building. Some 222 people were wounded.

The group that claimed responsibility, al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa, has carried out a ...

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