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Algeria: Al-Qaeda Claims Responsibility For 19 Attacks
(AKI) - The Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, Algeria's former Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), has claimed responsibility for 19 attacks carried out in the largest North African country from 24 April until 4 June. Among the attacks cited in the statement, which was posted on Islamist websites, was a bomb attack in the city of Constantine that killed a policeman on 16 May, the eve of legislative elections, and attacks against military convoys in the areas of Bourmedes, Tizi Ouzou and al-Bouira in the volatile Kabylia region in the east. The statement ended with a warning for Algerians not to go near areas where western tourists work or travel and government buildings, which they say will be targeted by attacks. The Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda last September and changed its name in January to the al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, is the only militant group to have remained active in the country after it refused to abandon the armed struggle in exchange for an amnesty in August. The group claimed responsibility for triple suicide bombings on 11 April that killed 33 in Algiers - the deadliest in the capital since 2002, when a bomb in a suburban market killed 38 people. Posted by: Fred 2007-06-08 |
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