Yup, JUST IN TIME for Bush and co.!!!!!!!!!
Gets the CIA TAPE CASE off of the headlines!!!
Seriously, readers, can't you see through this now?
And why the New York Times gives you two variations (one for abroad, one for the Amurkn shit-chewer), one can only hazard a guess:
"Twin bombs kill dozens in Algiers" by Craig S. Smith and Katrin Bennhold/International Herald Tribune December 12, 2007
ALGIERS: Two car bombs near United Nations offices and an Algerian government building caused carnage yesterday in one of the deadliest attack in the Algerian capital in a decade.
At least 26 people were killed, including UN workers, and more than 170 were wounded, the Interior Ministry said, although other reports put the death toll much higher. Two European diplomats in Algiers said the number of dead exceeded 60.
The North African branch of Al Qaeda claimed responsibility in a website posting and said suicide bombers carried out the attack. The posting called the UN offices "the headquarters of the international infidels' den." A UN official in New York said at least 10 of it's employees died.
You mean THIS "Al-CIA-Duh?"
Also see: "Al-CIA-Duhs" Catch-and-Release Program
You mean THESE websites and THESE videos?
Many of the dead were students aboard a bus en route to a university when it was struck by the second car bomb. A UN staff member was also confirmed among the dead in the first bombing, about 10 minutes earlier, and a dozen others were missing.
Jean Fabre of the UN Development Program told the Associated Press:
"We are looking through the rubble for people."
That top part was retyped from the paper.
For some reason, the web version's been sanitized!
This is where the paper and web meet:
The bomb near the United Nations building exploded around 9:30 a.m. local time on narrow Emile Payen Street, collapsing much of the development program's white multistory building and hurling chunks of rubble across the street. The blast blew out doors and windows of the buildings facing the development program building, including one housing the United Nations refugee agency. At least one staff member was killed there.
It was the first time that a recent bombing campaign by Islamist militants had touched the area, a quiet residential quarter of Hydra, which is home to many embassies and their diplomats on the so-called Heights of Algiers.
While security in the neighborhood is relatively tight, traffic was not restricted in front of the United Nations building. Several cars along the street were set on fire by the blast.
I smell INSIDE JOB!!!! CUI BONO??
Who gets the CIA tapes "controversy" off the front pages?
"Al-CIA-Duh" to the rescue again, 'eh, Georgie?
The second bomb exploded shortly afterward outside Algeria's Constitutional Council in the nearby Ben Aknoun neighborhood. The council oversees the country's elections. The bomb stripped away the facade of the white Moorish-style building, which had only recently been built by a Chinese construction company. The bus carrying the students who were killed was on its way to a nearby Ben Aknoun university campus.
Yes, the "hallmarks" of western intel prop-ops!
Operation Gladio
Prop 201 tutorial
FRU
To name but a few!
A man swathed in blood-soaked gauze told France 2 television from his hospital bed in Algiers:
"I was in my office and heard an explosion in the distance. When I went downstairs, I was hit by another explosion just in front of our building."
The White House condemned the attacks, in a statement:
"The United States stands with the people of Algeria, as well as the United Nations, as they deal with this senseless violence."
CUI BONO, readers?
And if waging aggressive wars based on lies is "sensible violence," then you can count me out right now, war criminal bastards!
The United States military and intelligence agencies have been very active in helping Algeria combat terrorist threats.
Although apparently NOT ACTIVE ENOUGH!
The blasts, coming on the increasingly symbolic 11th day of the month, bore the hallmarks of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a longstanding terrorist group that has aligned itself with Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. On April 11, the group exploded two car bombs in the capital, killing 33.
The 11th has become a day of choice for major Islamist terrorist attacks, beginning with those in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, followed by attacks in Djerba, Tunisia, on April 11, 2002, and in Madrid, Spain, on March 11, 2004.
Oh my God!!!
Now the "terrorists" are NUMEROLOGISTS!!!!
Gimme a break, will ya?!?!
9/11 means a hell of a lot more to military war-gamers than it does to some DEAD MUSLIM PATSY in a CAVE!!!!
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was founded in 1998 as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, or GSPC, an offshoot of the Armed Islamic Group, which, along with other Islamist guerrilla forces, fought a brutal decade-long civil war after the Algerian military canceled elections in early 1992 because an Islamist party was poised to win.
The stated aim of the terrorist group is to overthrow the government and install an Islamic theocracy in Algeria and throughout North Africa.
In 2003, a GSPC leader in southern Algeria kidnapped 32 European tourists, some of whom were released for a ransom of 5 million euros, or about $7.3 million at current exchange rates, paid by Germany.
Officials say the leader, Amari Saifi, bought weapons and recruited fighters before the United States military helped corner and catch him in 2004. He is now serving a life sentence in Algeria.
While most estimates put the current membership of the group in the hundreds, it has survived more than a decade of Algerian government attempts to eradicate it. It is now the best-organized and best-financed terrorist group in the region.
Yeah, with WHOSE HELP, readers?! I mean, COME ON!!!!
Last year, on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Al Qaeda chose the GSPC as its representative in North Africa. In January, the group reciprocated by switching its name to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, claiming that bin Laden had ordered the change.
Following the name change, the group became increasingly active with a string of bombings across the country and around Algiers, including the twin car bomb attack in the capital in April.
A Sept. 6 attack during President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's visit to the eastern city of Batna killed 22 people, and a suicide bombing two days later on a coast guard barracks in the town of Dellys left at least 28 dead.
The government has responded with a counterinsurgency campaign that has killed dozens of the group's members and captured several of its leaders. Hardly a day goes by without reports of terrorist attacks or security force clashes in the country's newspapers.
But in AmeriKa's War Dailies ... (sound of crickets chirping).
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb appeared to be weakening after losses in recent months. On Dec. 9, the privately owned Algerian newspaper Echourouk El Youmi reported that attacks had fallen to a record low in November, with only four Algerians killed. The newspaper did not cite a time period, but there have been dozens of deaths a month related to terrorist attacks or police attacks on Islamists in recent years.
But under the leadership of Abdelmalek Droukdel, the group has made an effort to emerge as part of the global Islamist jihad and now draws support from beyond Algeria's borders.
Javier Jordán, the director of Athena Intelligence, a Spanish research group focused on Islamist issues, said intelligence sources had tracked Islamists traveling between Algeria and the Afghan-Pakistani border region or Iraq:
"This is not just a question of a new brand, but of operational links. [The timing and choice of targets in Tuesday's attacks appeared to confirm the] growing global focus and its evolution into an arm of Al Qaeda."
Yup, here we go, "Al-CIA-Duh" ALWAYS conveniently on the move!
Terrorism officials are concerned about Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's efforts to recruit radical Muslims outside of Algeria and turn them into terrorists at training camps in North Africa for attacks in their homes countries, he said.
In December and January, Tunisian security forces raided a training camp outside the capital of Tunis where a group was preparing attacks on tourist and diplomatic sites in the country. A dozen militants were eventually killed and more than a dozen captured. The leaders had links with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and had crossed into Tunisia from Algeria.
In an audio recording released last month, Al Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahri, announced that a Libyan group had joined the alliance, and he urged Islamists in North Africa to attack Western interests and topple the leaders of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.
Jean-Louis Bruguière, who was France's chief antiterrorism judge until May, has long warned that the group was turning into one of the most serious terrorist threats for Europe and said in a telephone interview:
"Al Qaeda has succeeded in creating an advanced unit in a strategic region: North Africa is the door to Europe. The methods they are using are imported from Iraq."
Better BEWARE EUROPE!
Sounds like a FALSE-FLAG TERROR ATTACK BREWING!!!!!
Is that just an incredible piece of propaganda or what, readers?
How does the NYT KNOW SO MUCH about the "terrorist group," huh?
Here is more from the IHT web version:
"But the Algerian interior minister, Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni, told reporters at a news conference Tuesday evening that there were only 22 confirmed dead. He blamed the terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb for the attacks, without elaborating.
Marie Okabe, the deputy spokeswoman for Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, said Tuesday evening:
"We now believe that the UN death toll is at 10, a number of staff still remain unaccounted for and the situation on the ground is fluid."
Ban, who is at a climate change conference in Bali, issued a statement condemning the bombing:
"An abjectly 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."
Late Tuesday night in Algiers, hundreds of people huddled outside the roadblocks that the police had set up near the two bomb sites as rescue workers sought to recover those still trapped inside.
From the mountain of rubble where the United Nations offices had been, a narrow ring of light shone into the night sky from a small access hole leading to at least one survivor. The blasts also ripped down the facades of nearby buildings and shattered windows as far as two blocks away, leaving a carpet of glass.
A woman in the crowd said she had arrived soon after the attack and was still hoping for news of her cousin and friends who worked for the United Nations.
The woman, as a friend comforted her: "We have heard nothing, no sign of life."
As she spoke, a caravan of trucks was towing the burned-out carcasses of cars from the sites.
Okabe said the United Nations complement in Algeria was 19 permanent international staff members, 21 others there temporarily, and 110 local staff members. She said that her information came from a United Nations resident coordinator who had been in the half of the building that did not collapse from the blast.
Besides the Development Fund, the organizations housed in the damaged building include the World Food Program, the Population Fund, the International Labor Organization, the Industrial Development Organization as well as the Safety and Security Office and the Public Information offices.
Okabe, beyond confirming that risk and threat assessments are done constantly at all posts, said she could not discuss security measures that had been taken in Algiers in answer to a question during a news briefing on Tuesday:
"I have no reports that there was any threat immediately before this."
????
The deaths of United Nations personnel highlighted the high risk nature of their work. The United Nations staff union in New York said that at least 19 staff members around the world had already been killed this year and called for an investigation to see if adequate security existed at its offices in Algeria.
Okabe said that there had been 252 civilians killed on United Nations assignments since 1992, excluding peacekeepers and peacekeeping staff members. Department of Peacekeeping figures show that 2,405 soldiers and civilians have lost their lives since deployment of the first operation in 1948.
Ban, in his statement, said he had dispatched senior advisers in New York to Algiers immediately to lend assistance and study the security arrangements there:
"The security of UN staff is paramount. We will take every measure to ensure their safety, in Algeria and elsewhere, beginning with an immediate review of our security precautions and policies."
Oooooooooh, is this thing ever STINKING, readers?!
ANOTHER GOVERNMENT-BENEFITING "TERRORIST" ATTACK!!!!
I am TIRED OF the BULLSHIT LIES served up by the Zionist War Dailies -- AND the FALSE-FLAG TERROR ATTACKS being CARRIED OUT BY GOVERNMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!
This is what the AmeriKan version of the New York Times gave us:
"Twin Bombs Kill Dozens in Algiers" by KATRIN BENNHOLD and CRAIG S. SMITH
ALGIERS — Twin car bombs near United Nations offices and an Algerian government building killed dozens of people Tuesday in what may have been the deadliest attack here in more than a decade.
Two European diplomats in Algiers said that reports from rescue and medical workers led them to believe that 60 or more people had died. By Tuesday evening, 26 deaths had been confirmed by the Algerian Interior Ministry.
The terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility, posting a message on Islamist Web sites with photographs of two men it claimed were suicide bombers who carried out the attacks, which it said were aimed at “the Crusaders and their agents, the slaves of America and the sons of France.”
Some of the dead were students aboard a bus that was on its way to a university when it was struck by the first car bomb. Late Tuesday night, about 200 people huddled outside the police perimeter as rescue workers in dusty overalls and helmets worked to recover those still trapped inside.
A ray of light from the mountain of rubble that had been the United Nations building marked the spot where the police and firemen worked into the night to recover at least one survivor.
One woman said she had been there since the morning and was still waiting for news of two cousins and a friend who worked in the building. “We’ve had no news yet, no sign of life,” she said as a friend comforted her. While she spoke, a caravan of trucks towed away burned-out cars and an ambulance passed carrying a body in a white bag.
Marie Okabe, the deputy spokeswoman for Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, said preliminary figures showed that at least 11 United Nations staff members had died and that the organization was trying to account for several others who were missing.
“Our people are working with Algerian authorities in pulling people from the rubble,” she told reporters at a news briefing in New York.
Mr. Ban, who was at a climate change conference in Bali, issued a statement condemning the bombing as “base, indecent and unjustifiable by even the most barbarous political standard.” He said he had ordered an immediate review of United Nations security precautions and policies in Algeria.
The first bomb exploded shortly before 9:30 a.m. outside Algeria’s Constitutional Council in the Ben Aknoun neighborhood. The council oversees the country’s elections. The bomb stripped away the facade of the white Moorish-style building, which had only recently been built by a Chinese construction company. The bus carrying the students who were killed was on its way to the nearby Ben Aknoun university campus when the explosion occurred.
The bomb near the United Nations building exploded about 10 minutes later on narrow Émile Payen Street, collapsing much of the white multistory building and hurling chunks of rubble across the street. It left the roadway carpeted for blocks with shattered glass.
The organizations housed in the damaged building include the United Nations Development Program, the World Food Program, the Population Fund, the International Labor Organization and the Industrial Development Organization, as well as the Safety and Security Office and the Public Information offices.
The blast sheered the front walls off nearby buildings, including one housing the United Nations refugee agency. At least one staff member was killed there.
Ms. Okabe said the United Nations had 19 permanent international staff members in Algeria and 21 temporary ones. She said the United Nations employed 110 local staff members in the country.
It was the first time that a recent bombing campaign by Islamist militants had touched the area, a quiet residential neighborhood known as Hydra, which is home to many embassies and their diplomats, on the so-called heights of Algiers. While security in the area is relatively tight, traffic was not restricted in front of the United Nations building.
The message posted by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb identified one of the men it said was a bomber as Ibrahim Abu Uthman, who had a gray moustache and appeared to be in his 50s. The second, identified as Abdul Rahman Abu Abdul Nasser Al-Aassemi, was younger and smiling. The message said each detonated a truck containing about 1,800 pounds of explosives.
Several witnesses reported seeing a white truck or van drive into the United Nations compound moments before the blast.
President Bush condemned the attacks, calling them “senseless violence.”
“The United States stands with the people of Algeria, as well as the United Nations, as they deal with this senseless violence,” the White House said in a statement. The United States military and intelligence agencies have been active in helping Algeria combat terrorist threats.
The 11th has become a day of choice for major Islamic terrorist attacks, beginning with those in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, followed by one in Djerba, Tunisia, on April 11, 2002, and one in Madrid on March 11, 2004. On April 11, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb exploded two car bombs in the capital, killing 33.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was founded in 1998 as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, an offshoot of the Armed Islamic Group, which along with other Islamist guerrilla forces fought a brutal decade-long civil war after the Algerian military canceled elections in early 1992 because an Islamist party was poised to win.
The group’s stated aim is to overthrow the government and install an Islamic theocracy in Algeria and throughout North Africa.
In 2003, a leader of the Salafist group in southern Algeria kidnapped 32 European tourists, some of whom were released for a ransom of about $7.3 million, paid by Germany.
Officials say the group’s leader, Amari Saifi, bought weapons and recruited fighters before the United States military helped corner and catch him in 2004. He is now serving a life sentence in Algeria.
While most estimates put the current membership of the group in the hundreds, it has survived more than a decade of Algerian government attempts to eradicate it. It is now the best organized and best financed terrorist group in the region.
Last year, on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Al Qaeda chose the Salafist group as its representative in North Africa. In January, the group reciprocated by switching its name to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, saying Mr. bin Laden had ordered the change.
Following the name change, the group became increasingly active with a string of bombings across the country.
A Sept. 6 attack during President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s visit to the eastern city of Batna killed 22 people, and a suicide-bombing two days later on a coast guard barracks in the town of Dellys left at least 28 dead.
The government has responded with a counterinsurgency campaign that has killed dozens of the group’s members and captured several of their leaders.
Under the leadership of Abdelmalek Droukdel, the group has also made an effort to emerge as part of the global Islamic jihad and now draws support from beyond Algeria’s borders.
Javier Jordán, director of Athena Intelligence, a Spanish research group focused on Islamist issues, said intelligence sources had tracked Islamists traveling between Algeria and the Afghan-Pakistani border region or Iraq. “This is not just a question of a new brand, but of operational links,” he said.
Mr. Jordán said the timing and choice of targets in Tuesday’s attacks appeared to confirm the group’s “growing global focus and its evolution into an arm of Al Qaeda.”
Are the AmeriKan people ever shoveled shit by the New York Times or what, readers?
Case closed on that dogshit paper!!!!!
