Minister of State for Interior and Local Governments Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni of Algeria

Algerian Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni says a suicide bomber was responsible for one of the attacks.

Algerian Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni has undergone a kidney operation, but is recovering, a government minister said Sunday.

Zerhouni is known to have suffered from kidney problems that have taken him out of the public eye in the past.

Ould Kablia said that Zerhouni was kept informed of major issues.

200 Algerian Islamist fighters have so far surrendered under an amnesty aimed at ending years of violence, Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said in.

The death toll in the two bomb blasts here has mounted to 33, Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said Thursday.

Later Thursday, Algeria's Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said a suspect person who was among the crowd attempted to go beyond the security cordon, but the person escaped immediately after the bomb exploded, the press service reported.

Algeria says 200 rebels surrender in amnesty28/06/2006ALGIERS, (Reuters) - About 200 Algerian Islamist fighters have so far surrendered under an amnesty aimed at ending years of violence, Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said in remarks published on Wednesday.

Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni described them as the worst floods in a century.

We highly appreciate the efforts they exerted," Zerhouni was quoted by El Moudjahid daily as saying.

Zerhouni said the GSPCs decision to adopt the al Qaeda name "means nothing.

About 36 percent of the voters took part, which Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said.

About 36 percent of the voters took part, which Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said showed that parties were out of touch with the people.

Zerhouni said the attack was the work of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), the same group that took responsibility for an attack in April in downtown Algiers that killed 33 people.

Zerhouni said police interrogations of GSPC members arrested in the wake of the April attack revealed that Algeria's Constitutional Council and Supreme Court were on a list of GSPC targets.

Algerian Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the car bomb attacks and added that "the death toll is very high," the BBC reported.

Algerian Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said no claim of responsibility for the attacks had been received, the BBC reported.

According to the North Africa Journal, Yazid Zerhouni has appointed new Walis or provincial governors as part of a reshuffle of the governor corp.

Addressing an audience composed of regional and elected officials, Zerhouni said "history will remember the 'outgoing' Walis as administrators who have taken heavy.

Zerhouni is set to discuss a number of issues with Aksu before leaving Turkey.

While expressing his frustration over the Arab refusal, Yazid Zerhouni said Algeria will continue to lobby for the establishment.

Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation got more than 97 percent of Thursday's vote -- a big win that could.

ALGIERS: About 200 Algerian Islamist fighters have so far surrendered under an amnesty aimed at ending years of violence, Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said in remarks published yesterday.

Zerhouni said new police teams were being put in place to warn children and adolescents about pedophiles and to treat kidnapping victims.

proportion was only a maneuver to shed doubt on the elections' integrity.

Algeria's Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said it is difficult to confront the menace of suicide attacks but that the country's security services have adapted accordingly.

Zerhouni said the government had no indication the president was being targeted, but that exceptional measures have been necessary since the suicide attack last September in Batna Province, when a bomber killed 30 people along the president's scheduled route.

Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said the August 9th terrorist attack was in response to the killing of 12 al-Qaeda terrorists last week.

Zerhouni said the attack was probably in response to the "major operation" by the Algerian army in the town of Beni Douala in Tizi Ouzou that culminated in the elimination of 12 al-Qaeda terrorists, some of whom were Emirs.

Zerhouni had announced earlier that the attacks killed only the suicide bombers themselves.

Eight civilians were killed and 19 others injured in an assault on security forces, Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said Saturday.

in remarks published on Wednesday.

Zerhouni has previously said some 800 were still active.

0400 GMT) in the centre of Tizi Ouzou, the main town in the mountainous Berber-speaking Kabylie region of northern Algeria, Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni was reported as saying by the official APS news agency.

Zerhouni said local authorities had been told to temporarily rehouse 15 families whose apartments had been damaged.

Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said 15 people had been killed by the explosion, the official APS news agency reported.

They should give themselves up or perish,” Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni said recently.

Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said six were dead and 18 injured in the blast in the coastal town of Zemmouri el Bahri.