The 2007 Souk El Had bombing occurred on February 13, 2007, when a

car bomb A car bomb, bus bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in an automobile or other vehicles. Car bombs can be roughly divided ...

filled with explosives detonated against the headquarters of the

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in the town of

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, Boumerdès Province,

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, destroying buildings, killing 8 and injuring 50. The

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 t ...

was suspected as being responsible.

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