Algeria bombing

[ISLAMASWEENEY]

What do we think about wednesdays truck bombing in Algeria was it a act of terriosim.

[Zman]

:sl:

Could you please give us some background on that incident?

What group was allegedly behind it?
Who were the targets?
Where did it occur?

etc...

[doorster]

Algeria bomb kills 10 foreign soldiers - Mideast/N. Africa - MSNBC.com

Algeria truck bomb kills 10 foreign soldiers ... near a military encampment southeast of the Algerian capital on Wednesday, residents said. ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19711173/

[KAding]

The soldiers were not foreign though, they were Algerians.

Well, in my opinion. The attacker did not wear a uniform and was as such an illegal combatant. He did attack a military target though. But still, the fact that he posed as a civilian makes me lean towards 'terrorism'.

What do you think?

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[Zman]

Algeria bomb kills 10 foreign soldiers - Mideast/N. Africa - MSNBC.com

Algeria truck bomb kills 10 foreign soldiers ... near a military encampment southeast of the Algerian capital on Wednesday, residents said. ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19711173/

:sl:

jazakum Allah Khair for the info...

[Zman]

Well, in my opinion. The attacker did not wear a uniform and was as such an illegal combatant...

...But still, the fact that he posed as a civilian makes me lean towards 'terrorism'.

What do you think?

That would lead me to mention that our own CIA's Special Activities Division (the paramilitary boys) go in dressed as civilians (Afghanistan is an example, where they wear Afghani national dress and abduct, and murder), are also illegal combatants & terrorists, for conducting military operations disguised as civilians.

That would also make our own special forces illegal combatants & terrorists, since they also infiltrate wearing civilian clothes (so as not to be identified as American soldiers), and commit acts of sabotage, and murder.

After all, we summarily executed German soldiers on the spot, after being caught infiltrating our lines disguised as civilians in order to conduct acts of sabotage and assassinations.

The same is true for those Israeli commando's who dress up as Arabs, infiltrate Palestiinian territory and assassinate Palestinians.

That is true for any recognized nation-state military units that adobt that same tactic.

If a foreign country should capture those troops disguised as civilians and committing terroristic acts, they have every right to take away their rights; the Geneva Convention wouldn't apply to them; and they should send them to their local version of Guantanamo Bay.

If we can do that to others, they have every right to treat us in a similar manner...

[ISLAMASWEENEY]

A group linked to Al Queda in north Africa claimed responseabilty for the attack the attack occured in a village 120 miles east of Algiers the capital and the targets were Algerian soilders or police.