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 ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Al-Qaida-linked militants are winning recruits from the margins of Algerian society for a new strategy of high-impact attacks, details emerging from last week's bombings in Algiers suggest.
The methods of al-Qaida in North Africa have been denounced by former leaders of the Islamic insurgency that peaked in the 1990s and left up to 200,000 people dead.
"I condemn it, and I am ready to work to stop this bloodletting," said Madani Mezrag, who headed the Armed Islamic Group, an insurgency movement, before signing a cease-fire with Algerian authorities in 1997 and being pardoned by the government.
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