August 19, 2011

Al Qaeda's North African Wing Claims Responsibility For Algeria Suicide Bombing; 29 INNOCENTS MURDERED!

Reuters Africa
written by Staff
Thursday August 18, 2011

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's north African wing on Thursday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on a local police headquarters in Algeria at the weekend that officials said injured 29 people.

A statement identified the suicide bomber as Anes Abu El Nadr and urged Muslims to show support for al Qaeda and pray for its militants during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

[This is HOW TWISTED these radical muslims are! God is LIFE, RESPECT and FREEDOM! These sick SOBs take great pleasure in murdering innocent civilians every chance they get! That is NOT God's will. It's supposed to be their holy month and here they are MURDERING INNOCENT CIVILIANS! There is NO JUSTIFYING MURDER! Satan and his spawn come to steal, kill and destroy. Which is precisely what they and others like them are doing regularly. (emphasis mine)]

"Thanks to Allah, a large part of the building has been destroyed and 35 heretics have been killed and injured," said the statement, posted on an Islamist website which regularly carries al Qaeda communiques.

The attacker tried to drive a Toyota Hilux pick-up truck packed with explosives into the police headquarters in the town of Tizi Ouszou at 4:30 a.m. (0330 GMT) on Sunday, according to Algeria's official news agency.

The town lies about 100 km (60 miles) east of the Algerian capital. It is the biggest town in the mountainous Kabylie region, where al Qaeda's north African wing, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, has a stronghold.

A similar suicide attack in 2008 targeted the headquarters of the police intelligence unit in Tizi Ouzou.

Algeria, an energy exporter, is emerging from nearly two decades of conflict between security forces and Islamist militants that, at its peak in the 1990s, killed an estimated 200,000 people.

In the past three years the violence has subsided, with suicide bombings on targets in built-up areas becoming rare. The latest attack in Tizi Ouzou was the second of its kind in two months.

Two people were killed in July when a suicide bomber struck a police headquarters in the town of Bordj Maniel, a short distance west of Tizi Ouzou.

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