How Terrorist Groups End - RAND Corporation
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Al Qa’ida Attacks, 1994–2007 195<br />
Table B.1—Continued<br />
Date Location Description<br />
April 25,<br />
2007<br />
Boumerdes,<br />
Algeria<br />
Two militants from al Qa’ida Organization in the Islamic<br />
Maghreb killed a member of a citizen militia in a market<br />
in Boumerdes.<br />
May 13, 2007 Constantine,<br />
Algeria<br />
May 15, 2007 Timidaouen,<br />
Algeria<br />
One police officer was killed and two other people<br />
injured when militants belonging to al Qa’ida<br />
Organization in the Islamic Maghreb detonated a<br />
homemade bomb at a police checkpoint; the blast came<br />
days before a national election.<br />
Militants from al Qa’ida Organization in the Islamic<br />
Maghreb damaged the gas mains of the town of<br />
Timidaouen with a homemade bomb, though the<br />
explosion caused no casualities.<br />
July 11, 2007<br />
Lakhdaria,<br />
Algeria<br />
A suicide bomber belonging to al Qa’ida Organization<br />
in the Islamic Maghreb drove a refrigerated truck filled<br />
with explosives deep into a military barracks, killing 10<br />
and wounding 23.<br />
July 20, 2007 Souk El Had,<br />
Algeria<br />
Nine railroad cars were derailed when al Qa’ida<br />
Organization in the Islamic Maghreb launched an attack<br />
against a fuel freight train; the attack damaged roughly<br />
30 meters of railroad track and injured one soldier.<br />
September<br />
6, 2007<br />
September<br />
12, 2007<br />
September<br />
21, 2007<br />
Batna,<br />
Algeria<br />
Dellys,<br />
Algeria<br />
Si-Mustafa,<br />
Algeria<br />
Lakhdaria,<br />
Algeria<br />
In an assassination attempt against President Abdelaziz<br />
Bouteflika, an 18-year-old member of al Qa’ida<br />
Organization in the Islamic Maghreb detonated a bomb,<br />
killing 15 residents of the town of Batna and injuring<br />
more than 75.<br />
Only 48 hours after launching a similar attack, a 15-yearold<br />
member of al Qa’ida Organization in the Islamic<br />
Maghreb detonated a truck loaded with explosives,<br />
killing at least 30 people. All of the victims were coastguard<br />
troops engaged in a flag-raising ceremony.<br />
In an attempt to create an electrical blackout, al Qa’ida<br />
Organization in the Islamic Maghreb destroyed three<br />
electrical-energy pylons with explosives. The attack was<br />
only successful in a limited sense, however, as authorities<br />
quickly turned to other electrical-energy resources.<br />
Nine people were wounded when a suicide bomber<br />
belonging to al Qa’ida Organization in the Islamic<br />
Maghreb drove an explosive-laden vehicle into a truck<br />
convoy about 100 kilometers outside of Algiers. The<br />
attack, which appeared to target foreign employees of a<br />
construction firm, came only hours after al Qa’ida issued<br />
a call for attacks against French targets.