Introduction



Despite a bloody tragic recent past, marked by extreme violence
1990s, Algeria was the first time in its history hit
April 11, 2007 by a wave of suicide bombings Islamists. Until then the
Islamist armed groups had almost never used as
modus operandi for suicide attacks. The few such attacks had
was the result of individual decisions and strategies of non GIA 1 of
AIS 2 or later GSPC 3. However, in the meantime, he had taken in January 2007, the name of AQIM while its leader, Abdelmalek Droukdal
alias Abu Musab Abdelwadoud, said: "Children and Okba
Tarek are back 4. "To justify his fight, he was referring to sources
the Islamic conquest of the Maghreb and 5 and showed a willingness to
back to the original and constitutive values of Islam.