Tunis – Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said on Friday it was responsible for a recent attack on the home of Tunisia’s interior minister that killed four policemen, the first such claim in the country.
“A group of lions… went to cut off the head of the criminal Lotfi Ben Jeddou at his home… and God allowed them to kill a number of his personal guards,” an AQIM statement said.
The statement, posted on a jihadist Internet forum, said the May 27 attack on the house in the western border region of Kasserine, had also wounded other guards and that weapons had been seized.
It added that Jeddou, who was not in the house, “got away this time, but he won’t the next.”
And it said that “entering into open war against Islam and its partisans to please the United States, France or Algeria, will cost dearly.”
Meanwhile, the interior ministry said two jihadists were killed by national guardsmen during an operation on Friday in the Jendouba region to the north, and that other “terrorists” were being hunted…
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