37 Murdered By Pardoned

Israel has just released hundreds of terrorists,
knowing full well that they are ensuring the deaths of
many unseen innocents like these: Two convicted terrorists who had been freed in an
amnesty carried out the suicide bombings at U.N. and
government buildings that killed 37 people, an Algerian
security official has said.

Rescuers in the shaken city Thursday were still
extracting the living and the dead from the crumpled
remains of U.N. offices in Algiers that were bombed by
al-Qaeda's self-styled North African affiliate.

Victims caught in Tuesday's twin truck bombings, which
happened 10 minutes apart, included U.N. staff from
around the world, police officers and law students.

One of the bombers was a 64-year-old man in the
advanced stages of cancer, while the other was a 32-
year-old from a poor suburb that has produced many
Islamic militants, the security official said Thursday
on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized
to speak to the media.

The government has offered amnesties to try to end a
15-year Islamic insurgency, resulting in thousands of
militants turning themselves in, but sparking fierce
criticism from the families of victims.