At least 28 people killed in a deadly bomb rocks Algerian base

BBC ^ | September 08, 2007

[Ghayyour]

At least 28 people have been killed and some 60 injured in a car bomb attack on an Algerian naval barracks in Dellys, 100km (62 miles) east of Algiers. It comes just two days after a suicide bomb attack left at least 20 people dead, including the bomber, in Batna.

That bomb exploded in a crowd awaiting a visit to the town by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

He later blamed Islamic militants for the attack, but there has been no claim of responsibility for either attack.

'Islamic militants'

Appearing on television soon after the Batna incident, Mr Bouteflika said Islamic militants were behind the attack.

He denounced them as "criminals", trying to disrupt his policy of national reconciliation, which is aimed at ending 15 years of fighting between the army and groups trying to set up an Islamic state.

"Terrorist acts have absolutely nothing in common with the noble values of Islam," the official APS news agency quoted the president as saying.

In April, two bombs killed 23 people in Algiers. A group calling itself Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said it had carried out those attacks.

[b4its2late]

The religion of pieces at it again. Must’ve been dead man Osama’s democrat inspired speech that inspired the militants to attack.

[MNJohnnie]

Had to love the way Bin Laden sounded just like Ali Gore about Global Warming. Guess someone better tell the religion of pieces nuts that bombs blasts add significantly to their carbon footprint.

[b4its2late]

I know it is unbelievable. And how he said something about the mortgage crisis, flat tax, and more. His rambling incoherent speech sounded like the Miss Teen South Carolina one a few days back. He must get good reception under those tulips..

[Ghayyour]

He later blamed Islamic militants for the attack, but there has been no claim of responsibility for either attack.

‘Islamic militants’

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

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[PA-RIVER]

“Terrorist acts have absolutely nothing in common with the noble values of Islam”

In denial... Ostrich ....insert head in sand

[eureka!]

Algeria out of Iraq now!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Just Dam....!

I thought it was Joey Buttafucco again!!!( the guy whose wife got shot in the face by his girlfriend!)

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

"Terrorist acts have absolutely nothing in common with the noble values of Islam,"

The most empty phrase in any language. Not wrong or right, merely empty.

[FreedomPoster]

Exactly. Obviously all Bush’s, and America’s, fault.

[FreedomPoster]

Actually, it’s exactly wrong, 100% opposite of the observable facts.

Empiricism is a b****.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

No, it's worse than wrong, it's simply meaningless. Adherents of Islam are pretty much free to embrace or repudiate (or both!) any action or tenet.

Christianity under the pope had a central authority. With reformation, came decentralization and religious wars. Islam is like Protestantism in this respect, there is no central authority. If you have five Imam, you get seven opinions. Who is to say what is or isn't consistent with the "Noble" tenets of Islam?

[uncbob]

It’s all the Jews fault

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

To respectfully dissent, Christianity (Roman Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, Coptic, etc.) has a central authority, God, and as a proxy of sorts, the Bible.

[Rennes Templar]

“Christianity (Roman Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, Coptic, etc.) has a central authority, God,”

That certainly distinguishes it from Islam!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Islam makes the same claims for Allah and the Koran.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Islam also has the Sunnah and Hadith.

Roman Catholicism does have a central human creature authority people can walk up to and ask questions, but the bishop of Rome is as fallible as any human creature, and Roman Catholics do not have to obey his edicts.

Of the intra-Christian religious wars in the past, most conflict was between Roman Catholicism and pan-Protestantism, although there were limited cases of one Protestant denomination turning on another. So your seeming point that decentralization can lead to mass warfare as is happening in Iraq, and that the 'decentralization' is only on the part of Protestants and that the Roman Catholics weren't involved (the Reformation is called the Reformation because the Protest(ers)ants were trying to reform Roman Catholicism and bring the religion more in line with the Bible, the higher authority) seems off.

Furthermore, as a secular case, there is American government. Sort of in place of Ratzinger is Bush (not quite; Bush is co-leader with Congress and the Supreme Court, but Bush has the most power concentrated in a single individual of the bunch), and in place of the Bible is the Constitution.

The Constitution trumps the President as highest authority.

Just as the Bible (and God) trumps any human creature as highest authority.

To compare Islam and Christianity, it would be closer to link Roman Catholics with the Sunni, the pan-Protestants with the Shia, and the Orthodox with the Sufi, in terms of population size (though Sufi could beat out Shia, and could be more broken up as Protestants are broken up into many denominations) and historical internecine warfare.

[modyoulater]

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[doug from upland]

I await the lefties to tell us this was our fault. And, of course, I expect a certain congressman from Texas to agree.