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| Deadly bomb rocks Algerian base | Deadly bomb rocks Algerian base |
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| At least 28 people have been killed and some 60 injured in a car bomb attack on an Algerian naval barracks in Dellys, 100km (62 miles) east of Algiers. | |
| It comes just two days after a suicide bomb attack left at least 20 people dead, including the bomber, in Batna. | It comes just two days after a suicide bomb attack left at least 20 people dead, including the bomber, in Batna. |
| That bomb exploded in a crowd awaiting a visit to the town by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. | That bomb exploded in a crowd awaiting a visit to the town by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. |
| He later blamed Islamic militants for the attack, but there has been no claim of responsibility for either attack. | He later blamed Islamic militants for the attack, but there has been no claim of responsibility for either attack. |
| 'Islamic militants' | 'Islamic militants' |
| Appearing on television soon after the Batna incident, Mr Bouteflika said Islamic militants were behind the attack. | Appearing on television soon after the Batna incident, Mr Bouteflika said Islamic militants were behind the attack. |
| He denounced them as "criminals", trying to disrupt his policy of national reconciliation, which is aimed at ending 15 years of fighting between the army and groups trying to set up an Islamic state. | He denounced them as "criminals", trying to disrupt his policy of national reconciliation, which is aimed at ending 15 years of fighting between the army and groups trying to set up an Islamic state. |
| "Terrorist acts have absolutely nothing in common with the noble values of Islam," the official APS news agency quoted the president as saying. | "Terrorist acts have absolutely nothing in common with the noble values of Islam," the official APS news agency quoted the president as saying. |
| In April, two bombs killed 23 people in Algiers. A group calling itself Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said it had carried out those attacks. | In April, two bombs killed 23 people in Algiers. A group calling itself Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said it had carried out those attacks. |