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 ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Canadian entrepreneur Marc Lavigne insists al-Qaida suicide bombers don't worry him, but a security detail goes along when he tours the Algerian countryside to sell cow embryos to farmers.
This week's truck bombings that devastated U.N. offices and a government building were the latest in a string of al-Qaida-claimed attacks targeting foreigners in Algeria. The violence has foreign businesspeople on edge, scrambling to review security and even sending their families home.
The attacks come as this North African nation is selling itself as a land of economic opportunity after combatting an Islamic insurgency for more than a dozen years. The gloomy Algiers airport has been refurbished and even tough security guards are wearing smiles.
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