Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said earlier today that 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 an 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.”
