Bloody reminder

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In what is feared to be the start of a new wave of violence, Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility yesterday for two massive explosions in the Algerian capital Algiers. The blasts which occurred near the prime minister's office left 30 people dead and 160 injured, in a bloody reminder of civil war days. They followed Tuesday's explosions in Casablanca, Morocco, in which two bombers and three victims were killed. Weeks earlier, a similar explosion had demolished an Internet café in Morocco's largest metropolis. This is the first terrorist attack to hit the country, since a series of suicide bombings rocked Casablanca, in May 2003.