This is a switch. Rather than strapping the suicide belts to babies, toddlers or women, the jihadis are turning to the elderly.

Arab media and analysts have spoken of the “return of the elderly” to describe the strategic change by Al-Qaeda’s Branch in the Islamic Maghreb (BAQMI) that claimed responsibility for the bombings in the Algerian capital.

The Algerian government said that at least 26 people were killed and more than 170 wounded by the two bombs. However hospital sources say that more than 60 people died in the attacks.

The profile has changed. I wonder if they are getting desperate or if the use of profiling has caused them to change tactics. I can’t imagine they have a line of elderly terrorists lined up.