(SomaliNet) According to a statement posted on the Internet on Wednesday, Al-Qaeda's north Africa wing said it was behind a deadly suicide bombing in Algeria on Sunday. On Sunday, a car bomb exploded in the Takdemt district near the coastal town of Dellys, 100 km east of Algiers, killing three people and wounding six.
The group, which calls itself al-Qaeda organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, identified the bomber as Abu al-Abbas Abd al-Rahman and said his car was laden with 600 kg of an unspecified explosive material.
The statement, posted on an Islamist website, said the bombing had targeted army barracks. "We bring (the Muslim Ummah) the glad tidings of the mujahideens' victories and their massacre of the apostate slaves of America," the statement said.
Since adopting the al-Qaeda name early in 2007, the group, previously known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), has claimed several attacks including twin suicide bombings of UN offices and a court building in Algiers in December 2007 which killed 41 people. It also claimed a suicide truck bombing against a coastguard barracks in Dellys in September 2007 that killed 37 people. |