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| Algeria: UN chief recalls victims of Al-Qaeda attack |
| 2008-12-13 |
| (AKI) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday paid tribute to the 17 staff members killed by Al-Qaeda in the Algerian capital, Algiers, on the first anniversary of the terrorist attack. "Terrorists have taken these noble individuals from us," Ban said. "But they can never extinguish our hopes for global harmony nor our conviction that working together is the only path to a better world." Ban also noted that before the attack on the UN offices, terrorists struck the Algerian Constitutional Court, inflicting terrible casualties there. In the attack, a car bomb destroyed the offices of the UN Development Programme and damaged those of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the Algerian capital. A second blast targeted the court. Al-Qaeda's Branch in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the bombings. |
| Posted by:Fred |