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Militants post video of attack
22/01/2007 18:15 - (SA)
Dubai - An al-Qaeda-linked Algerian militant group posted a video on the internet on Sunday showing what they said was a deadly bomb attack on a bus carrying oil workers in the north African state in December.
The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) video appeared to show the bus taking an exit on a highway before being hit by a road-side blast. The film seemed to have been shot from a vehicle on the opposite side of the highway.
GSPC had claimed responsibility for the December 10 attack, which killed an Algerian and a Lebanese and injured eight people, including four Britons and an American.
In a textual header on the website, the group said the attack was aimed at the United States energy firm Halliburton <HAL.N>, which owned a stake in the firm that employed the oil workers - Brown Root and Condor.
Militants build home-made bomb
Condor Engineering, an affiliate of Algerian state energy group Sonatrach, owned a stake in the joint venture.
The tape showed that the militant group used satellite pictures and other advanced technology in planning and carrying out the attack.
It also showed militants building a home-made bomb using a gas cylinder, metal nuggets, a chemical and wireless detonators.
Earlier in January in a web video, GSPC leader Abu Musab Abdul-Wadud called for attacks against the French and their government allies in Algeria.
An Algerian insurgency began in 1992 after the authorities cancelled elections an Islamist party was expected to win.
Now led mainly by the GSPC, the insurgency had only about 500 fighters compared to 30 000 in the 1990s, operated usually in remote mountains and parts of the vast southern desert, and was involved in drug trafficking, kidnapping and extortion.
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