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Added: Nov 23, 2008

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Bomb attacks kill 11 in Algeria By Steven Erlangerhttp://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/20/africa/21algeria.phpWednesday, August 20, 2008 PARIS: Two car bombs killed at least 11 people and wounded 31 others on Wednesday in the Algerian town of Bouira, a day after a suicide bombing killed 43 people and wounded 45 others in a neighboring region, according to the Algerian Interior Ministry.The bombs on Wednesday were aimed at the military command in Bouira and the nearby Hotel Sophie, the town's largest, witnesses told The Associated Press. The car bombs went off around 6 a.m. and appeared to be powerful, badly damaging the military compound and barracks in Bouira, about 60 miles southeast of Algiers. The bomb near the hotel exploded as a passenger bus drove by, according to the Algerian press agency APS.There have been a series of bombings since December 2006, when the largest remaining group of insurgents, dating from the 1990's, changed its name to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and swore allegiance to Al Qaeda. It had been known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. The insurgency began in 1992, when the military-backed government canceled elections that an Islamic party as poised to win.Some 150,000 people are thought to have died in the ensuing violence.No group has yet taken responsibility for the bombings this week.The bomb on Tuesday, which targeted a police training school at Issers, 35 miles east of the capital, was one of the deadliest attacks in years in Algeria, which supplies oil and gas to Europe and is trying to put an end to these 15 years of conflict with the Islamic rebels. Last Sunday, 12 people were killed in an ambush of a military commander and his escort.On Tuesday, all the dead except one were young male civilians who had been lining up outside the police academy to take tests for recruitment. One member of the gendarmerie died. Of the wounded, some 32 were civilians and 13 gendarmes, the military said.The Algerian government has said that the attacks are a response to a successful counterterrorist campaign. On Tuesday, Algeria's interior minister, Yazid Zerhouni, said that "these terrorist gangs are seeking through attacks against civilians to loosen the net closing around them as the security forces drive them to the wall."President Nicolas Sarkozy of France condemned "the barbaric and blind violence" of the attack Tuesday in the former French colony.مقتل 11 شخصا واصابة 31 في انفجار سيارتين مفخختين في الجزائر20/08/2008 09h57محققون وخبراء تفكيك القنابل في موقع تفجير انتحاري في يسر الثلاثاء 19 آب/اغسطس 2008©ارشيف اف ب- الجزائر (ا ف ب) - افادت الاذاعة الجزائرية عن مقتل 11 شخصا واصابة 31 اخرين الاربعاء في اعتداءين بالسيارة المفخخة في البويرة (120 كلم جنوب شرق الجزائر العاصمة).واوضحت الاذاعة ان جميع القتلى من المدنيين دون ان توضح اذا كان الاعتداءان انتحاريان.واستهدف احد الانفجارين حافلة كان متوقفة قرب فندق صوفي في وسط مدينة البويرة فيما انفجرت سيارة مفخخة قرب مقر قيادة المنطقة العسكرية في المدينة.وافاد سكان في اتصال مع وكالة فرانس برس ان دوي الانفجار سمع على بعد مئات الامتار.واعلن الحارس الليلي لفندق صوفي للاذاعة انه كان "جالسا في موقعه عندما وقع انفجار مفاجئ هز الفندق" وكسر جميع زجاجه.وقال شهود ان قوات الامن فرضت على الفور طوقا امنيا حول منطقة الانفجارين.وياتي الاعتداءان اللذان لم تتبناهما اي جهة بعد غداة اعتداء انتحاري اسفر عن سقوط 43 قتيلا و45 جريحا حسب حصيلة رسمية امام مدرسة تدريب الدرك الوطني في مدينة يسر (60 كلم شرق العاصمة).

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