Bomb attack seriously injures FIS leader
2007-08-15
A car bomb seriously wounded the founder and former senior member of the banned Algerian Salvation Islamist Front (FIS) Mustapha Kartali on Tuesday (August 14th), Algerian and international press reports said. Kartali’s car exploded when he was driving on his way back from a mosque in Larbaa. His leg was amputated in the hospital, but there was no danger to his life, local media quoted Madani Mezrag, another former FIS leader as saying. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
In other news, El Watan and Ech Chourouk quoted security sources as saying on Wednesday that suicide bomber Zubeir Abu Sajida, involved in the deadly Algiers attacks on April 11th, has been arrested. Thirty-four people were killed and more than 200 others injured in the attacks on the Government Palace and a police station in an Algiers suburbs. Abu Sajida, who was born in 1973 in the province of Tiaret, was previously seen in a video tape broadcast by al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb claiming responsibility for the attacks.
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