Halliburton Workers Attacked in Algeria

Assailants hurled a bomb and shot at two vehicles carrying employees of an affiliate of U.S. company Halliburton near Algiers Sunday, killing one driver and injuring nine people.

…The attack threatened to stain the oil-rich North African nation’s international security image just as it is enjoying an oil boom and increased foreign investment after a bloody insurgency that wracked Algeria in the 1990s.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Several employees of BRC, or Brown & Root-Condor, were heading from their offices to a Sheraton Hotel where they are housed in the town of Bouchaoui, nine miles west of Algiers, when they were attacked in the early evening.

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