2006 Tidjelabine Bombing
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The 2006 Tidjelabine bombing occurred on June 19, 2006, when an explosive bomb detonated against a patrol of the Garde communale in the town of
Tidjelabine Tidjelabine is a town and commune in Boumerdès Province Boumerdès (, Kabyle language, Kabyle: Tanebḍit n Bumerdas) is a provinces of Algeria, province (''wilaya'') of northern Algeria, located in the Kabylia region, between Algiers and Ti ...
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Boumerdès Province Boumerdès (, Kabyle language, Kabyle: Tanebḍit n Bumerdas) is a provinces of Algeria, province (''wilaya'') of northern Algeria, located in the Kabylia region, between Algiers and Tizi-Ouzou, with its capital at the coastal city of Boumerdès ...
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Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
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Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (, ), 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 was then engaged in an insurgency c ...
is suspected as being responsible.


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Terrorist bombings in Algeria Many bombings were committed during the Algerian Civil War that began in 1991. The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) claimed responsibility for many of them, while for others no group has claimed responsibility. These terrorist inci ...
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List of terrorist incidents, 2006 This is a timeline of incidents in 2006 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, entries ...


References

History of Boumerdès Province Car and truck bombings in Algeria Terrorist incidents attributed to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb 2006 disasters in Algeria Terrorist incidents in Africa in 2006 Terrorist incidents in Algeria in the 2000s 2006 murders in Algeria Islamic terrorism in Algeria Car and truck bombings in 2006 {{terrorism-stub