Al Qaeda Bombed Temple, Leader Says
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A man identified as a senior military leader of Al Qaeda was quoted in a pan-Arab newspaper as saying that the group carried out last month’s attack on a Tunisian synagogue that killed at least 16 people and will soon strike at the U.S.
According to the London-based Asharq al-Awsat, Abdel Azeem Muhajir said that the April 11 truck-bombing of the Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba “was carried out by brothers in the Al Qaeda network.”
The paper said he was interviewed in the western Pakistani mountains near Afghanistan, but it did not say when.
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