[Times-UK] Adam Sage - At least 43 people were killed and 38 injured when a car driven by a suicide bomber and packed with explosives rammed into the Issers police academy east of Algiers where candidates were lining up to take an entrance exam. The explosion follows a series of terrorist attacks claimed by the al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, an Algerian movement formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, which joined forces with Osama bin Laden in 2006.
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