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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.

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