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2008 Thénia Bombing
The 2008 Thénia bombing occurred on January 29, 2008, when a suicide bomber drove and detonated a vehicle laden with explosives into the headquarters of the Algerian police (BMPJ) in the town of Thénia, Boumerdès Province, Algeria killing 2 and injuring 23. The Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb is suspected as being responsible. See also * Terrorist bombings in Algeria *List of terrorist incidents, 2008 This is a timeline of incidents in 2008 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Guidelines *To be included, en ... References Boumerdès Province Suicide car and truck bombings in Algeria Mass murder in 2008 2008 disasters in Algeria Terrorist incidents in Africa in 2008 Terrorist incidents in Algeria in the 2000s 2008 murders in Algeria Islamic terrorism in Algeria {{terrorism-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thénia
Thénia (), sometimes written as ''Thenia'', with around 40,000 inhabitants, is the chief town in the daïra of the same name, in the wilaya of Boumerdès, in northern Algeria. Historically, the name is a contraction of ''Theniet Beni Aicha'' (ثنية بني عائشة) "the mountain pass of the sons of Aisha", the Arabic translation of the Kabyle Berber toponym ''Tizi n At Ɛica''. The steep-sided pass, which is only about 800 metres wide at its narrowest point, is sometimes taken to mark the transition between Mitidja and Grande Kabylie. Villages The villages of the commune of ''Thénia'' are: Geography Thénia is located on the main road from Algiers to Constantine, about forty kilometres east of Algiers, about ten kilometres inland from the coast, at an altitude of 300 metres—an excerpt from the 1962 Michelin map of Algeria showing the location can be seehere Between the town and the coast, the scrub-covered Djebel bou Arous rises to a height of around 400 metres and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boumerdès Province
Boumerdès ( ar, ولاية بومرداس, Kabyle: Tanebḍit n Bumerdas) is a province ('' wilaya'') of northern Algeria, located in the Kabylia region, between Algiers and Tizi-Ouzou, with its capital at the coastal city of Boumerdès (formerly Rocher-Noir) just east of Algiers. Administrative divisions It is made up of 9 districts and 32 ''communes'' or municipalities. Districts # Baghlia # Bordj Ménaïl # Boudouaou # Boumerdès # Dellys # Isser # Khemis El Khechna # Naciria # Thénia Communes # Aafir # Ammal # Baghlia # Ben Choud # Beni Amrane # Bordj Menaiel (Bordj Ménaïl) # Boudouaou # Boudouaou-El-Bahri # Boumerdès # Bouzegza Keddara # Chabet el Ameur # Corso # Dellys # Djinet # El Kharrouba # Hammedi # Issers # Keddara # Khemis El-Khechna # Larbatache # Legata # Naciria # Ouled Aissa # Ouled Hedadj # Ouled Moussa # Si-Mustapha # Sidi Daoud # Souk El-Had # Taourga # Thenia # Tidjelabine # Timezrit # Zemmouri Neighbourhoods The ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suicide Bombing
A suicide attack is any violent attack, usually entailing the attacker detonating an explosive, where the attacker has accepted their own death as a direct result of the attacking method used. Suicide attacks have occurred throughout history, often as part of a military campaign (as with the Japanese ''kamikaze'' pilots of 1944–1945 during World War II), and more recently as part of terrorist campaigns (such as the September 11 attacks in 2001). While few, if any, successful suicide attacks took place anywhere in the world from 1945 until 1980, between 1981 and September 2015 a total of 4,814 suicide attacks occurred in over 40 countries, killing over 45,000 people. During this time the global rate of such attacks grew from an average of three a year in the 1980s to about one a month in the 1990s to almost one a week from 2001 to 2003 to approximately one a day from 2003 to 2015. Suicide attacks tend to be more deadly and destructive than other terror attacks because t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Qaeda Organization In The Islamic Maghreb
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ( ar-at, تنظيم القاعدة في بلاد المغرب الإسلامي, Tanẓīm al-Qā'idah fī Bilād al-Maghrib al-Islāmī), or AQIM, is an Islamist militant organization (of al-Qaeda) that aims to overthrow the Algerian government and institute an Islamic state. To that end, it is currently engaged in an insurgency campaign in the Maghreb and Sahel regions. The group originated as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). It has since declared its intention to attack European (including Spanish and French) and American targets. The group has been designated a terrorist organization by the United Nations, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. Membership is mostly drawn from the Algerian and local Saharan communities (such as the Tuaregs and Berabiche tribal clans of Mali), as well as Moroccans from city suburbs of the North African country. The group h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
