Al-Qaeda Claims Deadly Attack on Russians in Algeria

Al-Qaeda’s branch in North Africa claimed responsibility for a attack on Russian gas workers in Algeria, in an internet message, saying it was to avenge Russia’s actions in Chechnya.

“Mujahedeen (Islamic warriors) using a high intensity bomb targeted the convoy of Russian infidels working for the Russian company Stroytransgaz,” according to the statement signed by the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Maghreb.

A Russian engineer and three Algerians were killed and five other people wounded in the bomb attack on their bus on Saturday at Hayoun, near Ain Defla in southern Algeria.

The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) has, since last September, taken on the name of Osama bin Laden’s terror network for North Africa.

AFX News Limited