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An update on this story. By William Maclean and Lamine Chikhi for Reuters:
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Bombs killed 30 people in Algeria's capital on Wednesday, attacks claimed by al Qaeda that raised fears the north African oil exporter was slipping back into the intense political violence of the 1990s.
One of the blasts, believed to be a suicide bombing, ripped part of the facade off the prime minister's headquarters in the centre of Algiers. A second bomb hit Bab Ezzouar on its eastern outskirts, the official APS news agency said.
The Al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the bombings in an Internet statement, which also included a claim of responsibility for attacks in neighboring Morocco and pictures of three "martyrs."
The claim could not be immediately verified but the group, formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), has taken responsibility for a number of deadly attacks on security forces and foreigners in Algeria since January.
Hospital sources put the toll from the two bombings at 30. Earlier, APS put the toll at 23 dead with 162 wounded.
Leila Aissaoui, 25, stood crying near the government palace.
"I thought explosions in Algiers were over," she said. "I made a big mistake and I can't accept this."
[...]
Residents said Wednesday was the first time since the 1990s that a powerful bomb targeted the centre of the Mediterranean city where police had stepped up security following a rise in attacks by insurgents in the countryside.
GAPING HOLE
The blast at the prime minister's headquarters gouged a gaping hole in the six-story building, shattering windows and showering rubble on to cars for blocks around.
Police sources said the attack was a suicide bombing.
[...]
One Algerian analyst said the operation appeared to be a reply to stepped-up attacks by the army on Islamist insurgents in the Bejaia region in mountains east of Algiers.
The former GSPC has been increasingly active over the past year. It seems more likely that this attack was in the works for quite a while, rather than only in response to something recent.
"This is a violent reaction to Bejaia operation where important leaders of al Qaeda in the Maghreb are surrounded," said security expert Anis Rahmani.
"I do believe though, that that group has no capability to topple the government but obviously it has the means to disturb the life of peaceful people in Algiers."
Posted by Marisol at April 11, 2007 1:32 PM
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at April 11, 2007 1:49 PM
'"This is a violent reaction to Bejaia operation where important leaders of al Qaeda in the Maghreb are surrounded," said security expert Anis Rahmani.'
Why is it that everyone seems to think that these bombings are always in retaliation for something? Does Al-Qaeda always need a reason to kill infidels???
Cheers,
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com
Posted by: Doctor Bulldog at April 11, 2007 1:52 PM
Answering your rhetorical question Doctor Bulldog:
Rational folks have a difficult time wrapping their heads around the actions and statements of the deranged. It takes some time to come to the conclusion that these acts are NOT reactionary but rather intended to terrorize opponents into NOT reacting for fear of worse to come.
I don't thinh this action would've taken place if there wasn't a high degree of confidence that its outcome would be favorable for AQ in Algeria.
Posted by: turn at April 11, 2007 2:12 PM
Muslims keep pushing the world into a world war....one day soon, it will not be safe for a Muslim to walk the streets....
Posted by: exsgtbrown at April 11, 2007 2:17 PM
It's a quagmire. The French ought to end their occupation of Algeria ..... ah, the French AREN'T occupying Algeria? Well, who the heck is occupying Algeria? Isn't occupation always the reason for mass murder of human beings by Mohammedans (PBUH)? In any case, somewhere ought to leave Algeria to bring peace to the aggrieved Brothers.
Posted by: Jabba the Tutt at April 11, 2007 2:23 PM
I think the Muslims are the occupying force in Algeria...
Posted by: exsgtbrown at April 11, 2007 3:07 PM
The Presbyterian Group for Preaching and Combat (PGPC) maintains that it was NOT involved.
Posted by: MP at April 11, 2007 3:15 PM
"Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC)"
The name is surreal; Python-esque even.
What next? The Zionist Militia for Total World Domination Through Matzos, Terror and Prayer?
Preaching and combat...? Mutually exclusive, surely? Islam is peaceful.
Moderate Muslims must be up in arms that their Great Religion has been hijacked in this way. Appalled. Disgusted.
Or are the lobby groups too preoccupied with bacon hate crimes to worry about things like this?
at April 11, 2007 3:36 PM
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My rendition of a recent Danish cartoon .. like?
at April 11, 2007 4:01 PM
Oh man that didn't turn out, but my point is so why were Muslims so mad when a Danish cartoon depicted Mohammed with a bomb in his turban? Truth hurts.
at April 11, 2007 4:03 PM
"We won't rest until every inch of Islamic land is liberated from foreign forces," the spokesman said in a recording of the phone call played on Al-Jazeera.
From the AP article
So, can someone tell me, what foreign forces (other than AQ of course) are controlling Algeria? Was the country invaded while no one was looking? Thanks.
Posted by: PMK at April 11, 2007 4:15 PM
muslims take great pride in boasting that they have killed other muslims....
...why would anyone with half a brain want to be a muslim...
at April 11, 2007 4:31 PM
Hey Ameriki.. Are you looking for this?
Mohammed with a bomb in his turban. *@(((:~{>>
Have a look at this page chock-full of Mocons or "frowneys":
http://hodja.wordpress.com/2006/02/22/muhammed-smiley/
Abby, back from yer prayaz yet? You too might enjoy these.
Smile
Posted by: Allahfanculo at April 11, 2007 4:32 PM
...why would anyone with half a brain want to be a muslim...
Posted by: exsgtbrown
I can answer that!
This is your brain: (0)
This is your brain on islam: (.)
It's because they have LESS than half a brain. Reading the KKKoran is bad for your mental health.
Posted by: Allahfanculo at April 11, 2007 4:34 PM
Some Berbers in the Kabyle, and in France, are apparently finding Christianity to their liking. Let that spread. Let the awareness of Islam as a morbid cult of death, which things like this Al Qaeda attack help to make clear, go a step further, and among the Berbers of the Maghreb, including odd-man-out Morocco, let the view of Islam as a vehicle for Arab imperialism be made a theme, possibly starting with the Berber websites, demanding an end to Arab cultural and linguistic imperialism, and then for political and economic rights, and a return of the Berbers (and how many of those maghrebin Arabs are in fact Berbers, and perhaps DNA testing might cause some of the "Arabs" -- includinig those most determiined to suppress the Berbers in the name of Islam or Arab supremacy (they ovelap), to find their Berber identity.
Posted by: Hugh
at April 11, 2007 4:41 PM
Re Amriki's typographical art attempt above:
Saul Steinberg, thou should'st be living at this hour etcetera.
Posted by: Hugh at April 11, 2007 4:42 PM
"perhaps DNA testing might cause some of the "Arabs" -- includinig those most determiined to suppress the Berbers in the name of Islam or Arab supremacy (they ovelap), to find their Berber identity"
....old mo..."why are you crying, my son"
....mo jr...."The tests came back today"
....old mo..."and?"
....mo jr...."it says I am a Berber!"
....old mo..."do not worry, my son, it is a lie"
....mo jr..."What'a a Berber?"
at April 11, 2007 4:48 PM
I blame the Algerian People's Front, splitters.
ABDUL:
They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.
MAHOUD:
And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.
ABDUL:
Yeah.
MAHOUD:
And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.
ABDUL:
Yeah. All right, Mahoud. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!
MOHAMMED:
Clean drinking water?
ABDUL:
What?
RASOOL:
Plumbing and clean water.
ABDUL:
Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
MUJAHADEEN #3:
And the sanitation.
MAHOUD:
Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Abdul. Remember what the city used to be like?
ABDUL:
Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the clean drinking water and the sanitation are two things that the French have done.
TAYYIB:
And the roads.
ABDUL:
Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, clean drinking water, and the roads--
MUJAHADEEN #1:
Irrigation.
QAYYIM:
Medicine.
MUJAHADEEN:
Huh? Heh? Huh...
MUJAHADEEN #2:
Education.
MUJAHADEEN:
Ohh...
ABDUL:
Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
MUJAHADEEN #1:
And the wine.
MUJAHADEEN:
Oh, yes. Yeah...
RASOOL:
Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Abdul, if the French left. Huh.
MUJAHADEEN #3:
Swimming pools.
MAHOUD:
And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Abdul.
RASOOL:
Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it. They're the only ones who could in a place like this.
MUJAHADEEN:
Heh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
ABDUL:
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the French ever done for us?
JAAMI:
Brought peace.
ABDUL:
Oh. Peace? Shut up!
With apologies to Monty Python.
Posted by: Mike_W at April 11, 2007 4:50 PM
Allahfanculo:
Thanks for the wordpress link. I was reading some of the comments posted to the site and the one below is funny. It seems we would not have any of this technology were it not for Mohammed.
The guy needs to read.
PMK
You are losing your minds and the time will come when you will regreat all that. But i tell you something, if muhammed was not sent by Allah (GOD) you wouldn’t be having this pc and this internet and you will still be in the dark ages, without toilets and without any of the technology that you see around you…
Think and Islam is the TRUTH. And no one can fight Islam because it is protected by GOD
at April 11, 2007 4:50 PM
Mike_W:
Muslims think they invented toilets and gave them to us. They never heard of the Romans or the Greeks.
Posted by: PMK at April 11, 2007 4:53 PM
Muslims should not worry too much, The Qur'an has about 500 wipes per book...
Posted by: exsgtbrown at April 11, 2007 4:53 PM
A Nonny:
Don't confuse 'slammi preaching with the Christian variety. Their preaching has everything to do with combat--it's how they justify doing what every civilized person would not do.
Someday we're going to have to truly take the fight to them or we'll perish. At some point, brave Christian leaders will have to take to the pulpit and enforce the doctrine that Christians are not going to lay down our lives for someone else's faith but that we'll fight for our own. And for our Jewish brothers and sisters.
exsgtbrown:
500 wipes? Not if you follow the directions of the imam.
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/04/erin-allah-akbar.html
Posted by: turn at April 11, 2007 5:07 PM
It's not going to be over until at lteast the Amazigh, by which I mean Amazigh ethnically and in state of mind, not Amazigh by bloodline who believe themselves Arabists, become the dominant group in that nation. Same for Morocco and Tunisia and Libya. It may not likely that all AMazigh will ended up apoastates, most will still end up referring to themselves as non-practicing muslims simialar to the Persians, but at the very least they won't be slaves to the Arab League anymore and they won't be pressured to appease the Islamist insurgents in hopes they'll be civil. Even in the West the difference between the Amazigh and Arabists is clear; the AMazigh migrants, the Kabyles, Chawis, Rif-Amazigh and others, are often known to become way more succesful, become doctors, lawyers, business managers, politicians and other such positions, whereas the Arabists from the maghreb are mor elikely to be the ones abusing the welfare systems, breeding jihadis like rabbits and rioting over their inability to find jobs that out of all immigrants only they have.
I suspect that among Amazighs themselves and anyone else who views the situation objectively, this is becoming harder to deny as fact. I suspect the Amazigh tribes know that if they were running the show in the Mahgreb their countries would be like India, Western Europe, China, SE Asia and Southern Nigeria in the 60s in terms of the progression and sophistication of their civilization. There is no doubt millions of them who don't want their lands sterotypes as more backward arab lands, be forced to have arab names, live with jihadists wanting more concessions and don't even want to be part of the Arab League anymore.
Posted by: maxwell46&2 at April 11, 2007 5:47 PM
Does one detect a note of panic at Biased Broadcasting Corporation aka BBC?
'alarm bells ringing if Al Quaeda occupies E.U's
Southern flank'...
As for 'proposed Tunnel linking Africa to Spain'
even that foolish twat Zapatero ought to be RETHINKING THIS.
One thing which cheers me up is the X Factor-the unknown- which recurs again & again in History-
which may give Europe a WAKE UP CALL & time to get its defences into position.
Let us all pray,that this may be true.
at April 11, 2007 5:56 PM
You are losing your minds and the time will come when you will regreat all that. But i tell you something, if muhammed was not sent by Allah (GOD) you wouldn’t be having this pc and this internet and you will still be in the dark ages, without toilets and without any of the technology that you see around you…
Think and Islam is the TRUTH. And no one can fight Islam because it is protected by GOD
Posted by: PMK
@PMK.. Yes I read that one and a few more that are quite hilarious. And here I thought Al Gore invented the internet and sundry other good things. My world vision has been destroyed!
No man is an islam!
Posted by: Allahfanculo at April 11, 2007 5:56 PM
PMK
Muslims did invent toilets. Infidels came up with the holes and the flushes. Not to mention the toilet paper.
Posted by: Infidel Pride at April 11, 2007 6:01 PM
Hugh,
Have also read that thousands of Algerians have converted to Christianity as a result of muslims being muslims.
Posted by: PAS at April 11, 2007 6:03 PM
There is no Al-Qaeda, just ask any intellectual eliteist. It had to be the CIA and the Jews, just ask any Daily KOS-Moveon.org-Huffinton post-resident of San Fancisco type. They tell you the "truth"
Posted by: Balrog at April 11, 2007 6:04 PM
attacks claimed by al Qaeda that raised fears the north African oil exporter was slipping back into the intense political violence of the 1990s.
what is "al Qaeda" but a muslim terrorist. People get too tied up in knots over claims by so called "al qaeda", when islamist terrorist are all the same, use same ammo, bomb belts, etc. their aim is the same, and so it should noted "al Qaeda" is but another name for muslim terrorist.
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at April 11, 2007 6:37 PM
On past experience, the bombers will turn up in London, get welfare under 6 different names and the "Human Rights" lobby will stop them being sent back to face "cruel and inhuman" punishment..
Posted by: Fred at April 11, 2007 7:11 PM
You are losing your minds and the time will come when you will regreat all that. But i tell you something, if muhammed was not sent by Allah (GOD) you wouldn’t be having this pc and this internet and you will still be in the dark ages, without toilets and without any of the technology that you see around you… - quoted above
Thomas Crapper was a kafir. I'm sure of that.
Posted by: MarisolJW at April 11, 2007 7:13 PM
Very encouraging post, Hugh. It's good to know that among the Berbers, anyway, there's a spark of independent thinking.
Posted by: jewdog at April 11, 2007 7:13 PM
ISLAM! The cult of the mad bombers! Who is stupid enough to think they won't use nukes when they get them
Posted by: dennisw at April 11, 2007 7:49 PM
Fred:
They were SUICIDE bombers.
London's bombers are supplied by Leeds.
Morgane:
If one is predisposed to believe the Beeb's job is to inform the masses, one would be incorrect. Their job is to keep the masses tuned to their channels and influence their thinking.
Zena:
Al Qaeda means (literally) "the Base". They plan and plot things world-wide. They don't need to stir up the misguided youngsters in Israel as hamas et al do just fine.
You can believe that all terrorists are the same; I want to know my enemies.
Posted by: turn at April 11, 2007 8:02 PM
Jabba the Tutt and A Nonny Nonny, I think the perp was the Special Executive for Crime Terror, Revenge, and Extortion.
Posted by: Pelayo at April 11, 2007 9:14 PM
Almost every Muslim country is under the cross-worshipper's control since their puppets which they have installed work for them like headless b**ches. May Allah help us rid ourselves of this foreign indirect occupation suffocating the ummah.
I am not endosing Al-qaeda's solution to tackling the problem. Naseem's approach seems equally headed in the right direction. Muslims must continue to face the zionist-crusader alliance with different FACES.
Posted by: Abdullah at April 11, 2007 10:17 PM
Gosh Abdullah, did you figure that all out by yourself?
I'm so glad you didn't blame the Jooozzz....
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/04/12/algeria-jihad/
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/04/12/in-thailands-south-islam-means-peace-of-the-grave/
at April 11, 2007 10:36 PM
"You are losing your minds and the time will come when you will regreat all that. But i tell you something, if muhammed was not sent by Allah (GOD) you wouldn’t be having this pc and this internet and you will still be in the dark ages, without toilets and without any of the technology that you see around you…
Think and Islam is the TRUTH. And no one can fight Islam because it is protected"
PMK,
Think, why did Allah give us Infidels all the flush toilets, technology and prosperity, and give the Islamic world grinding poverty, ignorance, oppressive governments,injustice and terrorism?
Could it be because Muhammed was a fraud, and Allah was nothing more than a figment of his twisted emagination?
That's the real truth, and the sooner you realize it, the better off you'll be.
at April 11, 2007 11:21 PM
Al-Qaeda is alive and well all over the place. Algiers now... Well some of them are alive anyway, suicide bombers don't have a lot of longevity.
Thomas Crapper, the inventor of the modern flush toilet, is an alias, an AKA, (also known as), of the greatest inventor of all time, Algore. Algore not only invented the flush, but also radio, television,
air travel, the hamburger, hot dog...and beer.
Muslims have yet to discover he also invented Islam.
Algore is Allah.
While muslims may have dug a hole in the ground and covered stuff up, any dog can do that. It took Algore to refine the process by adding water and a flush. Only a geneous would have thought of that.
at April 12, 2007 12:17 AM
hey Abdullah cant you parrot anything new?
what Naseems proposes is against your allah, what al qaeda does is allowed in the koran, cant you read your koran. are you that blind? or just more lies from your lips..
at April 12, 2007 12:17 AM
Well *#@!*&%!!!
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/04/outrage_7000_ne.html
at April 12, 2007 12:37 AM
I am not endosing Al-qaeda's solution to tackling the problem. Naseem's approach seems equally headed in the right direction. Muslims must continue to face the zionist-crusader alliance with different FACES.
Posted by: Abdullah
The Taquiyya FACES?
Posted by: Allahfanculo at April 12, 2007 1:23 AM
turn
You're quite right, I did not realise he was a suicide bomber. He will not want refuge in another country and he's too busy with his virgins in paradise anyway. The post was an exasperated initial reaction.
I was thinking of the Algerian who was wanted for bombing the Paris underground in the 1990s. He lived comfortably and openly in London on welfare for 10 years and avoided extradition with the help of lawyer's who were probably paid for by the British taxpayer. The interesting thing about his case is that it was 10 years before it became public knowledge and then only because of a chance remark on a radio interview.
BTW remember the Sandgatte transit camp near Calais? It was closed about the time this Algerian was finally sent back to France. I cannot help wondering if there was a connection between the two, the French saying “Give us back the bomber and we will stop these refugees storming the Eurostar train to London every night”.
Also - I see abudulla the "moderate" is showing his true colours.
Posted by: Fred at April 12, 2007 3:20 AM
"foreign indirect occupation"
...foreign aid payments
...foreign delivery of medicine
...foreign delivery of clothing
...foreign delivery of water
...foreign delivery of food
...foreign assistance in building and maintaining electrical power plants that Muslims keep blowing up
...foreign assistance in rebuilding roads and bridges that Muslims keep blowing up
...."foreign indirect occupation"....Muslims do object to it....
...foreign assistance in maintaining sewer systems that Muslims keep blowing up
...foreign assistance in providing educational material for young children, (Muslims burn the books and kill the teachers)
......
at April 12, 2007 5:54 AM
exsgtbrown:
"Muslims keep pushing the world into a world war....one day soon, it will not be safe for a Muslim to walk the streets."
Thats sounds like what a Nazi would say not a Christian. But wait Hitler wasn't a Muslim nor a Jew... come to think of he wasn't Hindu, Buddist... In fact nor were the Serbs that also committed genocide; so what were they?
Hope you are smart enough to get my point? But just in case I won't hold my breath.
Posted by: 2Pac at April 12, 2007 7:44 AM
"Hope you are smart enough to get my point? But just in case I won't hold my breath.
Posted by: 2Pac "
...Muslims continue to kill Muslims, no matter what others proclaim...Muslim on Muslim violence remains the most violent type of violence in existence on the planet...You can deny it if you wish, but if you are a Muslim, you should be watching the Muslim praying next to you....
Posted by: exsgtbrown at April 12, 2007 9:24 AM
I am not endosing Al-qaeda's solution to tackling the problem. Naseem's approach seems equally headed in the right direction. Muslims must continue to face the zionist-crusader alliance with different FECES.
Posted by: Abdullah
Posted by: turn at April 12, 2007 9:57 AM
2Pac, For the hundredth time, Hitler was no Christian. He was apostate, ever hear that term?
Here for you edification:
http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/
at April 12, 2007 10:45 AM
"Don't be fooled by the sleight-of-hand, or seduced by the moral superiority held out as a reward. The historical record is clear, and the logic is sound. Christianity neither motivated nor sanctioned Adolph Hitler and his demented pagan dreams."
Posted by: exsgtbrown at April 12, 2007 10:54 AM
"Thomas Crapper was a kafir. I'm sure of that.
Posted by: MarisolJW "
.....ha! and a flushing kafir at that.....I will bet you are absolutely correct...
at April 12, 2007 1:48 PM
Almost every Muslim country is under the cross-worshipper's control since their puppets which they have installed work for them like headless b**ches. May Allah help us rid ourselves of this foreign indirect occupation suffocating the ummah.
And what if it turns out Allah doesn't and the "foreign indirect occupation" lingers on and on and on and....?
Might it mean that Allah actually smiles upon the cross-worshippers more than you'd like?
Posted by: yadayada at April 12, 2007 7:09 PM
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