{"id":2602,"date":"2014-06-14T10:31:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T03:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2014-06-14T10:31:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T03:31:30","slug":"al-qaeda-claims-attack-on-tunisia-ministers-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/al-qaeda-claims-attack-on-tunisia-ministers-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda claims attack on Tunisia minister\u2019s home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cA 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,\u201d an AQIM statement said.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

It added that Jeddou, who was not in the house, \u201cgot away this time, but he won’t the next.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it said that \u201centering into open war against Islam and its partisans to please the United States, France or Algeria, will cost dearly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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 \u201cterrorists\u201d were being hunted…<\/p>\n

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