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At 7 a.m. local time Aug. 19, a vehicle loaded with explosives detonated in front of a police training academy in Issers, Algeria, east of Algiers in prime al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) territory. Forty-three people died and dozens of others were wounded. Most of the casualties were police recruits lined up outside the academy. The attackers recognized that the academy was a soft target that would yield a high body count.

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