Algeria Under Siege: Twin Car Bombings Kill 11 A Day After 43 Perish In Another Suicide Attack

Algeria is under attack, folks and it appears to be an all out attack with back to back bombings in two days. The most recent attack was a twin car bombing in the city of Bouira that targeted a military command center and a hotel - that was today and yesterday, in the region of Boumerdes, a suicide car bomber hit a police academy killing 43. Here's some of the details from the report at Breitbart:

Wednesday's first bomb targeted Bouira's regional military command and injured four soldiers, the state-run APS news agency said. A minute later, 11 people died and 27 were wounded when a second bomb went off next to a hotel in downtown Bouira, APS and the state-run national radio said.
A security official in the Bouira area told The Associated Press that nearly all the victims were civilians.

The blasts appeared to be quite powerful, and an AP reporter in the area heard them from several miles away

And this, regarding yesterday's deadly bombing that killed 43:

Some 45 kilometers 27 miles to the north of Bouira in the adjacent Boumerdes province, a suicide bomber on Tuesday rammed a car into a line of applicants at a police academy in the town of Les Issers, killing at least 43 people and injuring 45.

Now, look at this from the article:

No group has claimed responsibility for either attack. An al-Qaida affiliate has organized a series of bombings over the past two years in this North African country that has important oil and natural gas fields.

There is no question, absolutely none, that these attacks were carried out by al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb - the "affiliate" that is mentioned in the article. The only reason that al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb hasn't claimed responsibility yet is because they had the second day of bombings planned and didn't want to tip anything off.

Algeria is, simply put, at war. The attacks by al Qaeda now are occuring each and every week and as you can see, the carnage is growing in intensity. This is vintage al Qaeda when military and police locations are hit - one of al Qaeda's typical strategies is to bomb the shit out of police recruits so that literally the supply line of new police and security recruits dries up.

It's my view that if Algeria doesn't ask for some help in this situation soon, they are going to be in serious trouble.

Twin car bombings hit Algerian hotel, barracks

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Twin car bombings rocked a hotel and military headquarters in the Algerian town of Bouira on Wednesday, killing 11 people a day after a suicide bombing in a neighboring region killed 43, official media and witnesses said.
Wednesday's first bomb targeted Bouira's regional military command and injured four soldiers, the state-run APS news agency said. A minute later, 11 people died and 27 were wounded when a second bomb went off next to a hotel in downtown Bouira, APS and the state-run national radio said.
A security official in the Bouira area told The Associated Press that nearly all the victims were civilians. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't allowed to discuss such matters with the media.
It was not immediately clear whether the bombings, which occurred at about 6 a.m. local time, were suicide attacks or if the two cars blew up by remote control. There was no immediate official comment on the attacks.
The military barracks were most damaged. "Parts of the walls have fallen-off, the fence is destroyed, cars are buried under the rubble," Abdellah Debbache, the Bouira correspondent of Algeria's Liberte newspaper, told AP by telephone.
Algerian news reports said the front facade of the barracks had been torn off and that several other buildings had been damaged.
Most victims from the second bomb had been traveling in a bus that passed in front of the hotel, APS said. Local hospital officials said they were workers from a construction company building a dam nearby at Koudiet-Acerdoun, the news agency reported.
Witnesses said several people had been brought to the hospital. Bouira was cordoned off by police and several additional roadblocks were set up in the surrounding region, they said.
The blasts appeared to be quite powerful, and an AP reporter in the area heard them from several miles away.
Bouira is located some 60 miles southeast of Algiers in the Bouira province.
Some 45 kilometers 27 miles to the north of Bouira in the adjacent Boumerdes province, a suicide bomber on Tuesday rammed a car into a line of applicants at a police academy in the town of Les Issers, killing at least 43 people and injuring 45.
No group has claimed responsibility for either attack. An al-Qaida affiliate has organized a series of bombings over the past two years in this North African country that has important oil and natural gas fields.
Violence has dramatically increased since 2006, when the GSPC, Algeria's last big extremist group left over from a quieted insurgency in the 1990s renamed itself Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa and joined Osama bin Laden's network.
The insurgency broke out in 1992 when the army canceled the second round of legislative elections that an Islamist party was expected to win. Ensuing fighting between security forces and Islamic militants left some 200,000 dead.