The Salafist Group for Call and Combat also warned Algerians to avoid places where Americans are located in Algeria, suggesting more attacks could follow.

"Stay away from the infidels' interests to avoid any harm that could befall you from mixing with them," said the group.

In the Dec. 10 attack, assailants hurled a bomb and shot at two vehicles carrying employees of BRC, or Brown & Root-Condor, in the town of Bouchaoui, west of Algiers.

An Algerian driver was killed, and the nine wounded included an American, several Britons, a Canadian, a Lebanese and an Algerian.

The Japan Times Weekly: Dec. 16, 2006
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