Al Qaeda behind Algerian blast of UN

Independent:

The Algerian capital was struck yesterday by two car bomb attacks claiming at least 67 lives. The blasts, within minutes of each other, were carried out by al-Qa'ida's north African wing, which specifically targeted the city's United Nations offices.

The UN said the bodies of 11 of its workers had been recovered by last night. The official death toll was put at 26 but medical workers and rescuers combing the rubble in the upmarket Algiers neighbourhoods of Ben Aknoun and Hydra, home to many diplomats and foreigners, said the toll will be much higher.

Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general of the UN, said: "Words cannot express my sense of shock, outrage and anger at the terrorist attack. This was an abject, cowardly strike against civilian officials serving humanity's highest ideals under the UN banner: base, indecent and unjustifiable by even the most barbarous political standard."

Al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) later claimed responsibility for the attack, posting a statement on an Islamist website along with pictures of the suicide bombers brandishing assault rifles.

It named the "martyrs" as Abdul-Rahman al-Aasmi and Ami Ibrahim Abou Othman and said they drove cars loaded with 800kg of explosives to the " headquarters of the international infidels' den" on behalf of the " wounded nation of Islam".

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So al Qaeda hates the world and not just the US. What this demonstrates is that al Qaeda is not attacking us because we are in Iraq, but because we resist their weird religious beliefs. I guess they notices that the rest of the world rejects their weird beliefs too. It is time the UN wised up and recognized that al Qaeda is at war with the UN too and not just the US. Who knows, maybe the UN will decide to fight back. Well, that might be asking too much.