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    ALGIERS, January 2, 2008 (Reuters) - A car bomb hit a police station in Algeria on Wednesday in an attack that state radio said killed four policemen and injured 20 people.

    It was the first major attack in Algeria since a double bombing in the capital Algiers killed at least 37 people on Dec. 11, including 17 United Nations staff.

    Al Qaeda's North African wing claimed responsibility for that attack, which hit U.N. offices and a court building, saying it had targeted "the slaves of America and France".

    The car bomb went off early on Wednesday in Naciria, about 120 km east of Algiers, witnesses said.

    "We heard the loud thump of the blast at 7.15 a.m. (0615 GMT)," said one resident, who did not want to be named.

    The blast ploughed a crater three metres across, wrecked the outside of the police station and damaged nearby homes, shops and a cafe.

    "The car exploded outside the police station. We are not sure whether a suicide bomber drove it there and died in the explosion or the vehicle exploded via a remote control system," said another resident.

    Earlier, witnesses had said a bomber rammed a car into the police station.

    "A Toyota car was used in the bombing which killed four policemen and injured 20 people," state radio said.

    An earlier Interior Ministry statement, which gave a lower casualty toll, did not specify whether it was a suicide car bomb.

    "There has been an attack with explosives near a police station in Naciria. The attack left three dead and seven wounded," it said, without giving further details.


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    Naciriya, January 2, 2008 (AKI) - Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed Wednesday's deadly bomb attack against a police station in the northern town of Niciriya, in Boumerdes province, east of Algiers, Arabic satellite TV network al-Arabiya reported.

    A suicide bomber, named as Abdullah, blew himself up in the attack, in which a truck with 500 kilgrammes of TNT explosives, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said, quoted by al-Arabiya.

    The bombing killed at least three people and wounded seven, according to the interior ministry. It provided no further details of the attack.

    Close to 50 people were killed in militant attacks in Algeria in December, the last of which was in the Boumerdes area on 26 December.

    Two police officers were killed and two more injured in a remotely detonated bombing that targeted a road patrol.

    A total 41 people were killed and many were wounded in two suicide attacks at the Supreme Court and the office of the UN refugee agency in Algiers.

    The attacks were claimed by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The terror formation grew out of the local Islamist insurgency movement, the Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GPSC).

    Up to 200,000 people are estimated to have been killed in Algeria since 1992, when an insurgeny erupted after the army annulled polls a now-banned Islamist party was poised to win.


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    Mercredi 2 Janvier 2008 -- L’attentat au camion piégé perpétré, mercredi 2 janvier vers 6h45, contre l’hôtel de police de Naciria, dans la wilaya de Boumerdès, a fait au moins 7 morts – quatre policiers et trois civils- et une dizaine de blessés, selon un premier bilan fourni à toutsurlalgerie.com par des sources sécuritaires locales.

    Le ministère de l’intérieur a confirmé l’attentat et donné un bilan provisoire de trois morts et sept blessés. Selon le ministère, l'attentat a été perpétré à 07h00 "à proximité" du commissariat de Naciria. Il n'a pas précisé si l'attentat visait ce commissariat et si les victimes étaient des policiers. Il ajoute que ce bilan est "provisoire" mais ne donne pas d'indications sur la nature de l'attentat, notamment s'il s'agit d'une voiture piégée ou d'une attaque-suicide.

    Par ailleurs, quelques heures après l’attentat, toutes les routes situées à proximité de centres de police ou de gendarmerie de la wilaya de Tizi-Ouzou ont été fermées à la circulation. Les services de sécurité ont été mis en état d’alerte : plusieurs barrages routiers ont été dressés à travers toute la wilaya et les véhicules sont systématiquement soumis à une fouille.


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    Mercredi 2 Janvier 2008 -- Le véhicule utilisé dans l’attentat perpétré, ce mercredi matin vers 6h45, contre l’hôtel de police de Naciria dans la wilaya de Boumerdès est une Toyota Hilux, selon des informations recueillies par toutsurlalgerie.com sur les lieux de l’attentat.

    On ignore toutefois s’il s’agit d’une opération kamikaze ou si l’auteur de l’attentat avait abandonné son véhicule sur le lieu de l’explosion avant de prendre la fuite. Selon un premier bilan provisoire fourni par le ministère de l’intérieur, au moins trois personnes ont été tuées dans l’explosion. Mais des sources sécuritaires locales interrogées par toutsurlalgerie.com avancent le chiffre de sept victimes – quatre policiers et trois civils.

    Par ailleurs, comme lors des attentats du 11 décembre à Alger, les journalistes ont été soumis à de très fortes restrictions par les services de sécurité. Ils sont tenus éloignés des lieux de l’attentat, rendant difficile la récolte d’informations.


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    Mercredi 2 Janvier 2008 -- Quatre policiers ont été tués mercredi matin dans un attentat suicide à la voiture piégée visant le commissariat de Naciria, dans la région de Boumerdès, à 50 km à l'est d'Alger, a annoncé la radio. Elle confirme une information révélée en début par toutsurlalgerie.com. La radio ne fait pas état de victimes éventuelles parmi les civils.


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    Mercredi 2 Janvier 2008 -- L'attentat perpétré, mercredi 2 janvier, contre l’hôtel de police de Naciria dans la wilaya de Boumerdès a fait de nombreux blessés parmi les policiers et les civils : selon nos informations, 22 personnes ont été évacuées vers un hôpital d’Alger et plusieurs autres blessés se trouvent en soins dans l’hôpital de Bordj-Menaël (Boumerdès). On ignore la gravité de leurs blessures. Selon des sources hospitalières, au moins quatre personnes ont été tuées dans l’explosion. Des sources sécuritaires locales avancent le chiffre de sept morts – quatre policiers et trois civils. Le ministère de l’Intérieur, dans un communiqué, a fait état de trois morts.

    Selon des témoins sur place, l’attaque a eu lieu quelques temps après la prière de El Fedjr : les auteurs de l’attentat étaient à bord d'un véhicule de type Toyota Hilux transportant une citerne bourrée d’explosifs. La voiture était suivie par second véhicule léger immatriculé à Bouira (10). Les deux véhicules ont emprunté la route en provenance du massif de Sidi Ali Bounab, qui abrite un important maquis terroriste.

    A quelques mètres de la sûreté urbaine implantée au centre de la ville de Naciria, la Toyota Hilux explose alors que le second véhicule a pris la fuite vers direction inconnue au milieu d’une panique indescriptible de la population qui venait de quitter la mosquée après avoir accompli la prière du matin.

    La façade du commissariat a été sérieusement endommagée par le souffle de la forte déflagration qui a été entendue des dizaines de km à la ronde. Selon une source sécuritaire, l’attaque serait l’œuvre d’un kamikaze qui aurait été tué dans l’explosion.

    En fin de matinée, le procureur général de Boumerdès, accompagné des autorités militaires et civiles, s'est rendu sur les lieux de l’attentat alors qu’un important périmètre de sécurité a été mis en place pendant que les éléments de la police scientifique étaient toujours à la recherche d’indices.


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    ALGIERS, January 2, 2008 (AP) - A car bomb exploded near a police station in a town east of the Algerian capital Wednesday, killing at least four people and ripping off the building's facade, witnesses said.

    The blast followed twin suicide bombings on December 11 at U.N. offices and a government building that killed at least 37 people in the capital of Algiers.

    A journalist and another resident in the city of Naciria said the car sped toward the police station and exploded. The two spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared for their safety.

    The Interior Ministry said the attack killed at least four people and wounded 20 others, including eight police officers. The ministry provided no details other than saying that the bombing was near the police station in the town about 45 miles east of Algiers.

    The explosion tore off the front of the police station and damaged neighboring buildings. Security forces cordoned off the rubble-strewn ruins of the police station.

    The suicide bombings in December and others in April were claimed by al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa, which emerged out of an alliance between Osama bin Laden's international terror network and a local Islamic insurgency movement known as the Salafist Group for Call and Combat.

    Security forces have been on maximum alert since earlier this week, after three trucks were stolen in the Algiers region, the newspaper Liberté reported Wednesday. The vehicles included a fuel tanker, and officials fear they might be used in suicide attacks, the report said.

    Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa has increasing used vehicles packed with explosives to deliver its strikes. In July, a suicide bomber blew up a truck inside a military barracks southeast of Algiers, killing 10 soldiers. Two months later, at least 28 people died after an explosives-packed vehicle rammed into a coast guard barracks in the northern town of Dellys.

    Meanwhile Wednesday, Le Soir d'Algérie newspaper said security forces have detained the mastermind behind the April 11 attacks that hit the Algerian prime minister's office and a police station, killing 33 people.

    Police picked up the 28-year-old suspect at his Algiers home overnight Saturday, the report cited an unidentified security official as saying. The official said the suspect chose the targets, recruited the suicide bombers and bought the substances used to make the explosives. It was not clear whether he was implicated in any other attacks, the newspaper said.

    Algeria's Islamic insurgency broke out in the early 1990s, when the army canceled the second round of the country's first multiparty elections to prevent likely victory by an Islamic fundamentalist party. Armed groups then turned to force to overthrow the government, and up to 200,000 people were killed in the ensuing violence.

    Until recently, the insurgency had been dying down, with militants' ranks dwindling after military crackdowns and amnesty offers. But in late 2006, the main Algerian militant group allied with al-Qaida and began to wage larger-scale bombings and target foreigners - signs that Islamic fighters were regrouping.


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