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The U.S. Department of State issued the
following Travel Warning on August 22, 2008: The Department of State urges U.S. citizens who travel to Algeria to evaluate carefully the risks posed to their personal safety. Terrorist attacks including bombings, false roadblocks, kidnappings, ambushes, and assassinations occur regularly. Since early 2007, the use of suicide bomb attacks, particularly vehicle-borne attacks, has emerged as a terrorist tactic in Algeria, including in the capital. The group that claimed credit for the December 11, 2007, suicide car-bomb attacks in Algiers has pledged more attacks against foreign targets, and specifically against American targets. The Department of State warns American citizens against travel to the Kabylie region of Algeria. Since June 2008, the Kabylie region has seen a series of bombing and other terrorist attacks of increasing size and frequency, including a suicide car-bomb attack at a gendarmerie school in Issers on August 19 that killed at least 44 people. While many of the attacks have targeted Algerian security forces, other targets have included a bus transporting the employees of a foreign company, and many of the victims of the attacks have been civilians.
The Department of State recommends that U.S. citizens avoid overland travel in Algeria. Americans who reside or travel in Algeria should take prudent security measures while in the country, including making provisions for reliable and experienced logistical support. Visitors to Algeria are advised to stay only in hotels where adequate security is provided. All visitors to Algeria should remain alert and adhere to prudent security practices such as avoiding predictable travel patterns and maintaining a low profile.
The U.S. Government considers the
potential threat to U.S. Embassy personnel assigned to Algiers sufficiently
serious to require them to live and work under significant security
restrictions. These practices limit, and may occasionally prevent, the
movement of U.S. Embassy officials and the provision of consular services in
certain areas of the country. The Government of Algeria requires U.S.
Embassy personnel to seek permission to travel to the Casbah within Algiers
or outside the province of Algiers and to have a security escort. Travel to
the military zone established around the Hassi Messaoud oil center requires
Government of Algeria authorization. Daily movement of Embassy personnel in
Algiers is limited, and prudent security practices are required at all
times. Travel by personnel within the city requires prior coordination with
the Embassy's Regional Security Office. American visitors are encouraged to
contact the Embassy's Consular Section for the most recent safety and
security information concerning travel in the city of Algiers.
American citizens in or
traveling to Algeria are also urged to register and to obtain updated
information on travel and security in Algeria at the Consular Section of the
U.S. Embassy in Algiers or on our travel registration website at
https://travelregistration.state.gov/ibrs. The
Embassy is located at 4 Chemin Cheikh Bachir El-Ibrahimi, B.P. 408 (Alger-Gare)
16000, in the capital city of Algiers. The Embassy can be reached at
telephone [213] (21) 691-425; [213] (21) 691-186; or fax [213] (21) 693-979.
U.S. citizens who require emergency services may telephone the Embassy at
[213](21) 691-255.
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