Police officers inspect the government palace in Algiers, Algeria, following a car bomb attack on April 11. Mohamed Messara/EPA FILE
The recent suicide bombers in Algeria have all the earmarks of an al-Qaeda operation accoring to counter-terrorism experts. Authorities seem to have uncovered an Iraqi connection once they cracked down on 60 local belligerants in the Saharan city of El Oued. Hamida Ayachi, editor of the Algiers-based daily Djazair News, has noted that contacts between Iraq and Algeria have intensified within the past year.