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Islamist group claims Algeria bombing |
2006-12-12 |
![]() The authenticity of the statement, posted late on Monday on a Web site used by Islamist militant groups, could not be verified. The attack on Sunday killed the Algerian driver and wounded nine people, including four Britons and an American. The GSPC said the attack was "a modest present to our Muslim brothers suffering the fire of the new crusade that targets Islam and its sanctities". "We bring tidings to the crusaders and apostates that they will face what they dislike," it added. It said the "mujahideen" who carried out the attack -- which took place in a heavily protected district 10 km (six miles) west of Algiers -- returned to their base unharmed. The United States on Monday urged Americans in Algeria, estimated to number about 800, to review their personal safety after the bombing, the first attack on Westerners in many years. The bus was ferrying employees of Brown Root Condor, a joint venture of Halliburton subsidiary Kellog, Brown and Root and Condor Engineering, an affiliate of Algerian state energy group Sonatrach, when a roadside bomb went off and gunmen opened fire. |
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