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Al-Qaeda Exploded Russian Bus in Algeria
Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the past weekend’s explosions in Algeria that killed seven policemen and four employees of a gas company, including a resident of Russia.
Our fighters attacked municipal guards in Tizi Uzu and killed the unfaithful, al-Qaeda announced via one of the web-sites of Islamic militants.
Accompanied by local police, a bus with 21 workers of Stroitransgaz Co. hit two land mines 130km southwest of Algeria’s capital March 3, 2007. The explosions killed a Russian and three Algerians and wounded a Russian and two Ukrainians. The wounded were admitted to the central military hospital for treatment.
Abu Abdullah Ahmad, the leader of northern African division of al-Qaeda, was the first to claim responsibility for the attack on the Russian bus via Al-Jazeera. The reason was the fight of the Russians against Islam and its followers in Chechnya, Ahmad explained.
The actual purpose of Islamic militants that attacked the bus was to capture attention of mass media before the May parliamentary elections, said Algeria’s Interior Minister Nouredine Yazid Zerhouni to deliver the first official comment of the country’s authorities on the militant’s attack, AP reported.
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