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 RABAT, Morocco (AP) - A deadly and carefully planned series of bomb attacks in Algeria by an al-Qaida affiliate may signal a new escalation in violence that could spread across North Africa and enter Europe, experts say.
Tuesday's bombings flew in the face of the Algerian government's bid to turn the page on a bloody Islamic insurgency that tore the nation apart in the 1990s. The attack also has ominous implications for the government of Algeria and its neighbors who are allied with the U.S.-led war on terror.
"It's clearly a serious development," Hugh Roberts, the North Africa project director for the Brussels, Belgium-based International Crisis Group said Wednesday. "We may be heading into a fresh period of serious terrorist activity."
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