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Religion of Peace Strikes in Algeria

Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 8:30:36 am PST

A car bomb attack on United Nations buildings in Algiers has killed at least 45 people.

ALGIERS, Algeria - Car bombs exploded minutes apart Tuesday in central Algiers, heavily damaging U.N. buildings and ripping the facade off the wing of a government office. Officials said 45 people were killed, and that 12 U.N. employees were missing.

Suspicions quickly focused on the North African wing of al-Qaida. The date — the 11th — could point to an Islamic terror link. Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa claimed responsibility for attacks on April 11 that hit the prime minister’s office and a police station, killing 33 people.

“We are looking through the rubble for people,” said Jean Fabre of the U.N. Development program in Geneva, after speaking with Marc Destanne De Bernis, the agency’s top official in the Algerian capital.

One employee of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees was killed and 12 employees from various U.N. agencies were missing, said Marie Heuze, spokeswoman for the world body in Geneva.

If all the missing are found to be dead, it would be the deadliest assault on the U.N. since the Aug. 19, 2003, truck bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad that killed 22 people, including top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello.

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1 Pro-Bush Canuck  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:32:12am

Worst ROP carnage in a while.

Pray for the families of the innocent victims.

2 SusanL  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:33:29am

Such lovely people, lets just give them the world and maybe they will quit, NOT.

What is the body count now? Over 15,000 or so?

When is everyone else going to wakeup?

Susan

Drive by, much work today.

S

3 Ward Cleaver  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:34:13am

Just following the wishes of their prophet.

4 Occasional Reader  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:34:47am

Monsters in human form.

5 jcm  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:35:00am

Another day of peaceful proselytizing by the religion of peace.

6 pat  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:35:47am

Too stupid to understand the UN is on their side.

7 Pantera  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:36:54am

Hmmm, that strange. I thought that if we negotiated with terrorists, they would never attack us.

8 Paco from Sefarad  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:37:14am

BBC says at least 62 dead:
[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

9 JohnAdams  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:37:15am

Anyone still stupid enough to think the "peaceful" Muslims won't completely capitulate to these gangsters wherever they gain a foothold?

10 astronmr20  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:37:27am

Prayers.

11 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:37:35am

OT:

Just saw breaking news at an elementary school in Florida...another shooting.

/Can't find anything online yet.

12 VegasRick  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:37:35am

“We are looking through the rubble for people,”
ROP - S/B ROR - Religion of rubble.

13 beblebrox  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:38:24am

Algeria has been notorious for some rather brutal heavy handed and brutal tactics in the past. I'm very surprised they haven't butchered the lot of them (the Armed Islamic Group) long before now.

14 ORD neighbor  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:38:55am

One more time, proving that appeasing jihadists does not work. Guess UN did not appease enough? Will they try to appease even more? That's a rhetorical question; the answer is probably "yes, and how!"... The lessons of history seem to keep getting lost somehow...

15 JohnAdams  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:39:06am

re: #11 NJDhockeyfan

OT:

Just saw breaking news at an elementary school in Florida...another shooting.

/Can't find anything online yet.

Oh God, this is shaping up as Black Tuesday...hope it's not true.
An elementary school?

16 VegasRick  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:40:14am

re: #13 beblebrox

Algeria has been notorious for some rather brutal heavy handed and brutal tactics in the past. I'm very surprised they haven't butchered the lot of them (the Armed Islamic Group) long before now.

Hope and pray. At least they don't have folks like thr DMC to tie their hands.

17 Abu Maven  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:41:09am

Seems to be something with the "11th" of every month. Sept 11, March 11, and now Dec 11.

18 Ringo the Gringo  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:41:29am

Savages!

As al Qaeda is driven from Iraq, look for them to reemerge in other places to satisfy their blood-lust.

19 coquimbojoe  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:41:32am

Sad. I hope they honor the Christmas/Hanukkah holiday...

Holding my breath.

/

Hey, to all our Jewish Lizards (Lizardim? Are the rest of us Goyischer skinks?), HAPPY HANUKKAH!

20 Ringo the Gringo  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:41:58am

Britain's highest birth rates among migrants

The figures, from the Office for National Statistics, will reveal that Britain's highest birth rates are in the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities, both predominantly Muslim.

The birth rate among women born in Pakistan but living in the UK is three times higher than that among British-born women, the figures will show.

Separate figures due this month will reveal whether Mohammed has overtaken Jack as Britain's most popular name for baby boys.

Last year's ratings showed that Jack remained in first place, chosen for 6,928 babies, but Mohammed - taking into account all of its variant spellings - had overtaken Thomas to lie in second place with 5,991.

The evidence of a rising birth rate underlines last month's official projections, first revealed in The Sunday Telegraph, which showed the population on course to rise to 77 million by the middle of the century, or even 91 million at the highest forecast.

21 VegasRick  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:43:13am

re: #20 Ringo the Gringo

Britain's highest birth rates among migrants


The figures, from the Office for National Statistics, will reveal that Britain's highest birth rates are in the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities, both predominantly Muslim.

The birth rate among women born in Pakistan but living in the UK is three times higher than that among British-born women, the figures will show.

Separate figures due this month will reveal whether Mohammed has overtaken Jack as Britain's most popular name for baby boys.

Last year's ratings showed that Jack remained in first place, chosen for 6,928 babies, but Mohammed - taking into account all of its variant spellings - had overtaken Thomas to lie in second place with 5,991.

The evidence of a rising birth rate underlines last month's official projections, first revealed in The Sunday Telegraph, which showed the population on course to rise to 77 million by the middle of the century, or even 91 million at the highest forecast.

I once named my teddybear "Jack". Am I safe?

22 Curt  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:43:16am

re: #6 pat

Too stupid to understand the UN is on their side.

Beat me to it...my thoughts, well, not in those words, but yeah..

Sad they have to keep on keeping on.

Sad to think the UN, and much of the rest of the world's leaders keep getting sucked into believing this ideology is for anything other than taking over the rest of the world, and...at that point, the UN will be replaced with the big time Sha'ria World Court.

Also, sadly, too much irony in this entire set of circumstances.

23 GreenDroll  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:44:01am

If only George Bush hadn't invaded Algeria. Oh wait, it was the French that suppressed the Algerians.

24 Occasional Reader  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:44:03am
The first explosion blew apart a bus packed with students in the Ben Aknoun district, near the Supreme Court.

Fucking cowards.

Scum.

Monsters.

They should be wiped out like smallpox.

25 astronmr20  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:45:26am

foxnews.com has photos.

26 Ward Cleaver  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:45:37am
27 Macker  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:45:43am

Wait! Don't hold your breath until they blame the JOOOS for their outburst.

28 Curt  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:45:47am

OK...from now on, just use SWC™ (Sha'ria World Court) to refer to the UN replacement...

30 Kosh's Shadow  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:46:35am

re: #6 pat

Too stupid to understand the UN is on their side.

And the UN is too stupid to see that it doesn't matter. Appeasement doesn't work, and in this case, the alligator isn't even saving them for last.

31 VegasRick  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:47:03am

re: #24 Occasional Reader

The first explosion blew apart a bus packed with students in the Ben Aknoun district, near the Supreme Court.

Fucking cowards.

Scum.

Monsters.

They should be wiped out like smallpox.

Pretty unbelievable isn't it. And the idiots sit silent. "You just don't understand these people, same as us, blah, blah, barf".

32 Golem Akbar  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:47:19am

All US troops out of Algeria! No blood for sand? huh? Oh, nevermind.

33 JohnAdams  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:47:43am

re: #24 Occasional Reader

The first explosion blew apart a bus packed with students in the Ben Aknoun district, near the Supreme Court.

Fucking cowards.

Scum.

Monsters.

They should be wiped out like smallpox.

And then wipe out the last one, in the vile at the CDC.

34 VegasRick  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:49:21am

re: #28 Curt

OK...from now on, just use SWC™ (Sha'ria World Court) to refer to the UN replacement...

SWC - hard to remember. How about SWC "Scumbag Woosie Cowards" there, that's easier to remember!

35 Curt  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:50:42am

re: #34 VegasRick

re: #28 Curt

OK...from now on, just use SWC™ (Sha'ria World Court) to refer to the UN replacement...

SWC - hard to remember. How about SWC "Scumbag Woosie Cowards" there, that's easier to remember!

The most outrageous the association, the easier to recall...funny how the mind works...Sounds good to me!

36 akak  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:51:09am

they're good people he says

37 JohnAdams  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:53:02am

Wait. People have actually convinced themselves that it's OK to kill themselves and hundreds of other innocents in the name of their religion?

Just want to check myself because I think I'm getting numb to it. You can't get numb to it.

38 Ringo the Gringo  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:53:08am

So this morning on MSNBC Tim Russert was interviewing someone from the Obama campaign and a fellow from the Edwards campaign and I finally found out what differentiates their two candidates from both Hillary and each other: Obama is for "real change" and "meaningful change", while Edwards is for "bold change"...or is it the other way around?

Now I can't remember, but they both agree that Hillary isn't for change.

39 JohnAdams  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:54:04am

re: #37 JohnAdams

Wait. People have actually convinced themselves that it's OK to kill themselves and hundreds of other innocents in the name of their religion?

Just want to check myself because I think I'm getting numb to it. You can't get numb to it.

Self-edit.

40 Occasional Reader  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:54:13am
U.N. Development program

The UNDP, by the way, are not like the normal bloated UN bureaucracy; they do some good work.

41 Cygnus  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:54:17am

re: #11 NJDhockeyfan

OT:

Just saw breaking news at an elementary school in Florida...another shooting.

/Can't find anything online yet.

Oh, crap.

42 Owl  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:55:55am

re: #41 Cygnus

re: #11 NJDhockeyfan


OT:

Just saw breaking news at an elementary school in Florida...another shooting.

/Can't find anything online yet.


Oh, crap.


It's a gun-grabbers field day.

43 tfc3rid  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:56:37am

Prayers going up for those murdered by these dirtbag terrorists...

Algeria? Hmm, sounds like Al Q is searching for a new place to call home...

44 JohnAdams  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:57:05am

re: #38 Ringo the Gringo

Can't believe Edwards hasn't been completely laughed off yet.

OT: Tusk by Fleetwood Mac now playing on Radio Paradise...

45 WalterMitty  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:57:49am

Will the UN pull out of Algeria now because it's too dangerous?

/it was too dangerous in Iraq...

46 solomonpanting  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:58:00am
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned Tuesday's bombings.

"This is just unacceptable," said a somber Ban, who was on Indonesia's resort island of Bali for a U.N. climate conference.

At least he's involved in something that can be solved by people.

47 gw  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:58:45am

"If all the missing are found to be dead, it would be the deadliest assault on the U.N. since the Aug. 19, 2003, truck bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad that killed 22 people, including top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello."

Yet Islamophobia is all in our heads...

48 Owl  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:58:51am

re: #46 solomonpanting

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned Tuesday's bombings.
"This is just unacceptable," said a somber Ban, who was on Indonesia's resort island of Bali for a U.N. climate conference.

At least he's involved in something that can be solved by people.


huh? sarc?

49 Owl  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:59:30am

re: #47 gw

"If all the missing are found to be dead, it would be the deadliest assault on the U.N. since the Aug. 19, 2003, truck bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad that killed 22 people, including top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello."

Yet Islamophobia is all in our heads...

and yet somehow, something that should be illegal? doh.

50 Tenacious  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 8:59:32am

Anyone want to wager a guess on the religion of those involved?

And if anyone wants to accuse me of "racism" (even though religion is not a race and there are people of many races that are Muslim) or bigotry, what if this question were really subject to a wager. At say, Tradesports?

Example: If you could purchase a contract that is worth $10 if the car bomb was perpetrated by Muslims, how much would you be willing to spend for that contract? The market would show that it's a slam dunk, and the contract would, in my estimation, be selling for over $8 (meaning that when people's money is at stake, they believe that there is at least an 80% chance the perps were Muslim). Get it, Libs? Wanna wager?

51 solomonpanting  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 9:00:33am

re: #49 Owl

huh? sarc?

But, of course.

52 astronmr20  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 9:01:59am

re: #50 Tenacious

Not even a gambler here, but I'd wager a years' salary.

53 friarstale  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 9:02:29am

re: #6 pat

Too stupid to understand the UN is on their side.

well, were the perps terrorists or just anti-globalization protesters?

54 friarstale  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 9:03:48am

re: #6 pat

Too stupid to understand the UN is on their side.

and yet, smart enough to know the UN won't strike back!

55 Macker  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 9:04:32am

re: #44 JohnAdams

Now I LIKE Radio Paradise!

56 Just_A_Grunt  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 9:06:33am

The death toll is up to 62 and climbing. The BBC's headline says dozens killed but int he text it has the count of 62. The ever reliable AP is still reporting 45.

57 JohnAdams  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 9:07:24am

re: #55 Macker

re: #44 JohnAdams

Now I LIKE Radio Paradise!

Yup. It's a groove thing.

58 Tenacious  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 9:09:21am

re: #52 astronmr20

It'd be a good investment, don't ya think?

Good to see a scientific mind here to lend us lizards even more cred!

59 ajai  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 9:17:33am

"If all the missing are found to be dead, it would be the deadliest assault on the U.N. since the Aug. 19, 2003, truck bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad that killed 22 people, including top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello."


Why is whoever who wrote this dying to reference this 2003 event, Iraq and Sergio Vieira de Mello? Shouldnt they tell us the last attack that bigger attack when they you use the word "since". Maybe they really want to say since the last time Muslim fanatics attacked the UN? Also, even if none of the missing are found dead the death count is still already more than the 2003 bombing.

60 straight_shooter  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 9:22:18am

If Kofi were still Secretary General, he would have ordered a withdrawal of all UN personnel and blamed the occupying forces. Guess Sarko and GW sent in special forces and didn't make a grand announcement. Sit tight and wait. Someone will soon leak this to the NYT.

61 VegasRick  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 9:22:50am

Ire: #50 Tenacious

Anyone want to wager a guess on the religion of those involved?

And if anyone wants to accuse me of "racism" (even though religion is not a race and there are people of many races that are Muslim) or bigotry, what if this question were really subject to a wager. At say, Tradesports?

Example: If you could purchase a contract that is worth $10 if the car bomb was perpetrated by Muslims, how much would you be willing to spend for that contract? The market would show that it's a slam dunk, and the contract would, in my estimation, be selling for over $8 (meaning that when people's money is at stake, they believe that there is at least an 80% chance the perps were Muslim). Get it, Libs? Wanna wager?

In Vegas the "line" would probably be -990, meaning you would need to wager $9.90 to win a dollar. Actually our Sportsbooks are smart enough that they would not even take any "action" on it. Kinda like NE beating Miami with no point spread.

62 lurking faith  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 9:28:37am

The innocents to their just reward;

the murderers to theirs.

/hope Stan's minions have been sharpening their knives

63 Kosh's Shadow  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 9:32:37am

re: #62 lurking faith

The innocents to their just reward;

the murderers to theirs.

/hope Stan's minions have been sharpening their knives

No, dull knives are supposed to be more painful.

64 THScott  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 9:32:46am

Get the troops out of Algeria!

65 Is it me?  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 10:08:27am

The UN has a nasty habit of appeasing butchers (like Sierra Leone in the '90s). They still haven't learned not to feed rabid dogs with a bare hand.
I hope more are found alive.
Maybe the Algerians will send in its counter-terrorist unit (part of a new airborne special forces division), it would at least give us a chance to see if they are any good. They certainly need something. AQ won't go away unless foreceably driven off.

66 harmless  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 10:33:18am

I hesitate to call it a red on red as some people at the UN actually do think they are doing good.

An upkick in AQ activity elsewhere in the Middle East was expected as many of the foreign jihadis have escaped Iraq with their tails between their legs. There was a similar rise just after the Algerian fighters returned from fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, but this actually helped calm the country down in the long run. The jihadis coming back from Afghanistan insisted on wearing baggy Afghan gear that made them easy to spot and monitor in the realtively westernised towns, and their barbaric tactics and insistance on strict Islam distanced them from many local Muslims that had previously hated the government for not allowing an Islamic party to win elections. The jihadis coming back from Iraq will return with newer IED knowledge and updated geurilla tactics and will be eager to prove what amazing warriors of Islam they are (by attacking school buses, unarmed women, etc, etc). Outside of the backward mountain areas, the AQ in Algeria have little support and blowing up kids is unlikely to help their cause.

67 BingoBunny  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 11:30:14am

The UN will be leaving Algeria... in counting .. tick tick.. how many minutes..

/oh wait they have to blame Bush first

68 rob.schmitt  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 12:02:42pm

I'm sure that this violence will end as soon as Algeria withdraws it's troops from Iraq.

69 mean Gene  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 12:13:52pm

OK al Qaeda just admitted to being behind this attack.
I guess Algeria will just have to leave Afghanistan and Iraq.

70 DaChew  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 4:20:14pm

[lefty logic] You see, the reason that Al Qaeda bombed the UN Headquarters in Algeria, killing a large number of Algerian Muslims, is because of U.S. military imperialism and cultural hegemony in the middle east. The illegal American war in Iraq is Al Qaeda's strongest tool for recruiting Muslims to suicide bomb other Muslims who work for the UN in Algeria. [/lefty logic]

Either that, or the just got confused because Algeria and America have sort of a similar spelling and the didn't buy a map.

Seriously, the leftists will uterly ignore this incident because it does not fit their narrative. In their minds it can't possibly be that militant Islamists belong to a blood thirsty death cult. There must be some other explanation and it must involve something we've done to them.

71 hopperandadropper  Tue, Dec 11, 2007 5:00:50pm

What's the over/under on how long it will take Reuters and AP to blame this on American policy?

I'm taking the under.

72 kirche  Thu, Dec 13, 2007 9:31:10am

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