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Ten U.N. personnel were among the casualties Dec. 11 in one of the two bombings that struck the Algerian capital of Algiers.

Thus far, Algerian jihadists’ main targets have been government facilities and personnel, especially security forces. The Dec. 11 attack, however, was designed to hit Western installations. This calls into question the country’s safety for Westerners and the security forces’ capabilities in containing the insurgency, which appears to be fairly resistant to both internal and external threats.

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