ALGERIA. Algiers. GIA car bomb exploded at CITE GARIDI in Kouba district, housing for Police families. The police housing complex after a car bomb exploded at dawn, injuring at least 33 people as they slept. The bombing followed a warning from the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) that they would attack women linked to the security forces.Eight children were among the wounded, the bomb blew up between two buildings in the Garidi estate for police officers and their families, in a working class suburb of Kouba, a fundamentalist stronghold. 1995.