Five Algerian police were killed in a bomb attack blamed on armed extremists in the eastern Kabylie region, security officials said yesterday. The officials said the extremists detonated the bomb on Thursday as a police patrol car was passing through the town of Boghni, 35km from the region’s main city of Tizi Ouzou, killing its occupants. Elements from the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), a group linked to Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network, are said to be active in the area. The blast was the most serious attack against police in Algeria since the start of the year and comes just ten days after extremists killed two soldiers and a town guard near Tizi Ouzou. The hardline GSPC, led by Hassan Hattab, claims to only attack members of the security forces.
| Unlike GAI, which used to kill everybody they could lay hands on. |
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