The group formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) seems to be intensifying its activity. "Algeria hit by bombings, six dead," by Larbi Louafi and Zohra Bensemra for Reuters:
SI MUSTAFA, Algeria (Reuters) - Seven bombs went off almost simultaneously in Algeria on Tuesday, killing six people east of the capital Algiers in an elaborate assault by suspected Islamist rebels.
Residents said four of the attacks targeted police stations.
"I was woken by a huge blast. I thought it was an earthquake," said Aaref Jumaa, a resident of Si Mustafa village close to Boumerdes town 50 km (30 miles) east of Algiers.
The Al Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, previously known as Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), claimed responsibility for the bombs in a statement posted on the Internet and said it had targeted police stations.
The authenticity of the statement, posted on a Web site used by Islamist militants including al Qaeda, could not be verified.
The group has stepped up a campaign of bombings and ambushes in recent months.
An Interior Ministry statement quoted by the official APS news agency said six people, including two members of the security forces, were killed in seven attacks in the Boumerdes and Tizi Ouzou districts east of Algiers.
Thirteen people were wounded, including 10 members of the security forces, the ministry said, adding that five of the seven bombs were rigged in vehicles.
Four people were killed in Si Mustafa village while two were killed in Meklaa, it said. Other bombs blasted Draa Benkheda, Meklaa, Illoula Oumalou and Souk El Had, which was hit twice.
Jumaa, standing near the blast-pocked walls of Si Mustafa's police station, said the bomb went off at 4:15 a.m. (0315 GMT) beside the building, which is across the street from his home.
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In Draa Benkheda, a resident who declined to be identified said he saw several presumed attackers filming the immediate aftermath of the blast.
My heart and soul lays with the slaughtered.
The dreariest thought. Even with islam - this is what the world will have to put up with. Ther would never be peace. Look at what happened\d with Algeria after the French. They've been slaughtering each other ever since- bombings in city streets and beheadings; because each side interprets the koran their own way.
Yesterday, I read the chilling story of a young girl of 17 years old - in the 1990s, that was kidnapped right from her own home - by guerillas and raped for 5 months by many men. Mind you, both the unfortunate girl and the scum were islamics.
Is this what we have to look forward to? It's a case of damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
In the name of THE GOD of Love, NO!!
signed,
Patrick Henry
The Al Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, previously known as Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat...
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Please don't think I'm being flippant about this horrifying carnage--*I am not*. But I just gotta say that "The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat" has to be my favorite name for a terrorist group ever--even better than the "Symbionese Liberation Army".
I just wish the name was being retired because the members were all captured or killed, rather than their just adopting a new moniker.
I guess brand really is everything. You can always look to Al Qaeda for your quality terrorism.
oh wow the pick seven places to bomb civilians how brave and smart these monsters are. look at great these low lifes have become. they kill their own muslims, blame that on who now?
...What is in a name?.....
Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
Abu Sayyaf Group
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
Ansar al-Islam
Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
Asbat al-Ansar
Aum Shinrikyo
Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA)
Continuity Irish Republican Army
Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group)
HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)
Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
Hizballah (Party of God)
Islamic Jihad Group
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) (Army of Mohammed)
Jemaah Islamiya organization (JI)
al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad)
Kahane Chai (Kach)
Kongra-Gel (KGK, formerly Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, KADEK)
Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LT) (Army of the Righteous)
Lashkar i Jhangvi
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM)
Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK)
National Liberation Army (ELN)
Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLF)
PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC)
al-Qa’ida
Real IRA
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
Revolutionary Nuclei (formerly ELA)
Revolutionary Organization 17 November
Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)
Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL)
Tanzim Qa'idat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (QJBR) (al-Qaida in Iraq) (formerly Jama'at al-Tawhid wa'al-Jihad, JTJ, al-Zarqawi Network)
United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)
...and there are many more....the majority of terrorist groups are Islamic.....it is a fact....
Oh, so true.....
To the tune of "I've been working my way back to you, babe"
[chorus]
I've been killing my way back to Islam.
With every throat i cut.
I've been killing my way back to Islam
Kicking infidel butt.
[end chorus]
Every day! (Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Ba-Ba-Bomb)
Killing every way! (Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Ba-Ba-Bomb)
I used to be, an apostate
Eating pork every time i ate.
Letting all faiths have their way.
Not praying five times a day.
Now Osama has shone the light. We have to kill, day and night.
Yes, with every bomb, i'm closer to Islam.
We're gonna kill everyone in the world!
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb....
[chorus]
It is a fact that all Islamic suicide bombers wait until there are some female children within the bomb's blast area so that when they are killed along with the bomber, they will serve as his virgins in the Islamic heaven.