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 ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - A group linked to al-Qaida staged seven near-simultaneous bomb attacks Tuesday, targeting police in several towns east of Algiers and killing six people, officials said.
Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa — the new name for the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, known by its French acronym GSPC — claimed responsibility for the attacks in a telephone call to the Al-Jazeera television network and in a statement on the Internet. The group allied itself with al-Qaida last year, raising the stakes in the region's fight against terrorism.
The seven bombings, some of them car explosions, hit the Kabylie region east of Algiers between 4 a.m. and 10 a.m. Tuesday, the state news agency said.
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