Undeniably Terrorism

NY Times: Twin Bombs Kill at Least 60 in Algiers

Twin car bombs near United Nations offices and an Algerian government building killed dozens of people today in the deadliest attack in the capital, Algiers, in more than a decade.

Two European diplomats in Algiers said that reports from rescue and medical workers led them to believe news agency tolls of 60 or more. But the Algerian interior minister, Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni, told reporters at a news conference this evening that there were only 22 confirmed dead. He blamed the terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb for the attacks, without elaborating.

MORE:

Mr. Ban, who is at a climate change conference in Bali, issued a statement condemning the bombing as “an abjectly cowardly strike against civilian officials serving humanity’s highest ideals under the U.N. banner — base, indecent and unjustifiable by even the most barbarous political standard.”

AND:

The 11th has become a day of choice for major Islamist terrorist attacks, beginning with those in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, followed by attacks in Djerba, Tunisia, on April 11, 2002, and in Madrid, Spain, on March 11, 2004.

BBC: Algiers blasts kill 10 UN staff

The United Nations confirms 10 of its staff are among the dead in a double car bombing in Algeria’s capital, Algiers.