A Car Bomb explode has killed atleast three people and injuring numerous others is reported in the city of Thenia about 40 miles east of the Capital Algiers. Speaking on conditions of anonymity to the reporters, the military officials had added that the explosion had damaged number of houses in the nearby. Four people died earlier this month in a similar incident when a vehicle with explosives rammed in to a police stationinto in the town of Naciria, east of Algiers.
al-quida in Islamic North Africa, an affiliate of al-quida claimed the responisibility for the latest attack. This group which is an offshoot of an alliance between Osama bin Laden’s interntional terriorist network and an algerian Islamic Movement by name Salafist Group for Call and Comfort(GSPC) is reported to be utilising this strategy of using vehicles packed with explosives to deliver its strikes.
Islamic Insurgency broke in Algiers as early as 1990 when the Army cancelled the secound round of country’s first multiparty elections to prevent likely victory by an Islamic Fundamentalistic Party. This has resulted in the killing of more than 2,00,000 (Two Lakh) people and the violence still goes unabated if at all with a renewed vigor. There appeared to e a dying down of the insurgency in between through a combination of military attacks and amnesty offers, but, this trend seems to have been bucked by the Islamic fighers who are regrouping in the Country. And the emergence of GSPC in late 2006 seem to tbe an offshoot of this trend. This outfit indulges in large-scale bombings and targets foreigners also.