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Article: Al-Qaida bombs Algerian prime minister's office
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- April 12, 2007
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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 ...