Friday, June 8, 2007

Al-Qaeda's Algerian Connection Raises Risks of Unrest Across North Africa

(Bloomberg) -- On April 11, three suicide truck
bombers hit in and around Algiers, killing 30 people. One bomb
blew up at the gates of Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem's
office, a French colonial palace on a hill.

The bombings were the work of Algeria's Salafist Group for
Preaching and Combat, an Islamic rebel group that has been
weakened by years of government crackdown. They may also be the
fruit of the recently formed alliance between the SGPC and al-
Qaeda, the global terror network headed by fugitive leader Osama
bin Laden.


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