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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has been blamed for an attack on a police barracks that has killed four and injured 20. A suicide bomber drove a truck laden with explosives into a police barracks in the town of Timizar in the Kabylia region. Two Islamists were killed in a lorry that was following the truck. Four Islamists were killed and two arrested in an ambush by the Algerian military north of Tizi-Ouzou.