Al-Qaida claims deadly Algiers blasts

Bombs killed 30 people in Algeria's capital yesterday, attacks claimed by Al-Qaida that raised fears the north Africanoil exporter was slipping back into the intense political violence of the 1990s.

One of the blasts, believed to be a suicide bombing, ripped part of the facade off the prime minister's headquarters in the center of Algiers. A second bomb hit Bab Ezzouar on its eastern outskirts, the official APS news agency said.

The Al-Qaida Organization in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the bombings in Algeria and attacks in Morocco, Al Jazeera television reported.