An Al-Qaida official said one of its terror cells was responsible for a truck explosion in April at a Tunisian synagogue. The London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported that Abdel Azeem Muhajir, described by the paper as a “senior military leader” of Al-Qaida, made the claim when he was interviewed in the Pakistani mountains near the border with Afghanistan.
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