WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2007
6:24 MECCA TIME, 3:24 GMT
Al-Qaeda claims Algeria bombings
The two bombs went off within minutes of each other in
the heart of the Algerian capital [AFP]
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed
responsibility for two bombings in Algeria's capital
which killed at least 26 people and injured more than
170 other, according to the government.
Hospital sources, however, said that the explosions
near the constitutional court and a UN building on
Tuesday had left about 60 people dead.
A statement posted on a website said that two cars
loaded with 800kg of explosives each had been used "to
attack the headquarters of the international infidels'
den" and the council building.
It named the two bombers as Abdul-Rahman al-Aasmi and
Ami Ibrahim Abou Othman.
"This is another successful conquest ... carried out
by the Knights of the Faith with their blood in
defence of the wounded nation of Islam," the statement
said.
Suicide bombers
The group, which was formerly known as the Salafist
Group for Preaching and Combat, posted pictures of
what it said were the two suicide bombers holding
assault rifles.
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Profile: Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
The statement said that 60 people had been killed in
the first attack and 50 in the second.
Marie Okabe, a UN spokeswoman, raised from 10 to 11
the death toll among staffers at the offices of the UN
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
She said the 11 were mostly Algerians but included
three foreigners.
Several UN employees were still missing, trapped under
the rubble of collapsed buildings, Okabe said.
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, voiced shock
and outrage at what he described as "terrorist
attacks".
"Words cannot express my sense of shock, outrage and
anger at the terrorist attack on the UN mission in
Algiers," he said in a statement issued in Bali,
Indonesia, where he is attending a climate change
conference.
Suspects' statement
Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni, Algeria's interior
minister, said suspects arrested after bombings in
April had identified the UN offices as among their
future targets, according to a report on the official
APS news agency.
Witnesses said that several victims of the explosion
near the constitutional court in Ben Aknoun were
students on a school bus.
Al Jazeera correspondent Hashem Ahelbarra said that
the attacks came after a speech by Ayman al-Zawahiri,
al-Qaeda's deputy leader, earlier this year in which
asked attackers to target France, Spain and Algeria.
The bombings come weeks after attacks
by an al-Qaeda inspired group [AFP]
The al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb organisation has
claimed responsibility for a number of bombings that
have killed several people this year.
In September, a car bomb killed 37 people at a
coastguard barracks in Dellys, 100km east of Algiers,
two days after a suicide bomb blast targeting a convoy
carrying Abdulaziz Bouteflika, Algeria's president,
killed 22 people.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was formed from the
Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) in
January 2007, with leader Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud
promising to wage a violent campaign.
The GSPC was formed in 1998 by former members of
Algeria's Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which began
attacking the government in 1992 after it cancelled
elections an Islamic party looked set to win.
More than 150,000 people died in an ensuing
decade-long civil war.
International condemnation
The US condemned Tuesday's attack on the UN buildings,
with the White House saying it would support Algeria
and the UN in the wake of the attacks.
"We condemn this attack on the United Nations office
by these enemies of humanity who attack the innocent,"
Gordon Johndroe, White House spokesman, said.
Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, condemned the
attacks in the former colony as "barbaric", in a
telephone call to his Algerian counterpart.
"President Sarkozy has just called president
Bouteflika to express the French people's solidarity
and compassion towards the Algerian people," David
Martinon, presidential spokesman, said.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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