Bombing in Algeria

Around 43 people were killed and 38 wounded. Expected the numbers to rise as more reports come in. The bombing targeted a paramilitary gendarmerie training school. So far no group has claimed responsibility but it looks like the work of al Qaida's north Africa wing. Reuters

ALGIERS (Reuters) - A bomb attack east of Algiers killed 43 people and wounded 38 on Tuesday, the Algerian interior ministry said, in one of the bloodiest incidents in years in the OPEC member state.

A ministry statement carried by the official APS news agency, said the attack targeted a paramilitary gendarmerie training school at Issers, 55 km (34 miles) east of the capital.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

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The bloodshed has subsided in recent years and in 2006 the government freed more than 2,000 former Islamist guerrillas under an amnesty designed to put an end to the conflict.

But a hard core of several hundred rebels fights on as members of al Qaeda's north Africa wing, which was previously known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat or GSPC.

The group's leader, Abdelmalek Droukdel, told the New York Times last month that increasing numbers of young men around the region were joining the group out of persistent poverty and anger at what he called the West's war on Islam.

Yeah, right. This guy is echoing the PC mantra of why they attack us. The young men are joining up because thats what the qu'ran tells them to do.