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Al Qaida North Africa wing claims responsibility for Algeria suicide bomb Thu. August 07, 2008 06:31 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. - (SomaliNet) According to a statement posted on the internet on Wednesday, Al Qaida's North Africa wing said it was behind a deadly suicide bombing in Algeria on Sunday. On Sunday, a car bomb exploded near a police station in the town of Tizi Ouzou, east of Algiers, wounding 25 people including four policemen. The group, Al Qaida organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, identified the bomber as Makhlouf Abou-Mariam and said his truck was laden with 600kg of an unspecified explosive material. The explosion destroyed a dozen cars, ripped the facade off a small block of apartments, gouged chunks of masonry from the walls of other nearby buildings and shattered windows in the town centre. "We tell the sons of France and the slaves of America, and (we tell) their masters too, that our finger is on the trigger and the convoys of martyrs are longing to rampage your bastions in defence of our Islamic nation," the group said in the statement posted on an Islamist website. The group has claimed several attacks in past including the twin suicide bombings of UN offices and a court building in Algiers in December 2007, which killed 41 people, 17 of them United Nations staff.-Agencies News Category: Africa Latest Headlines Latest News Tanzania: Comoros president hails Tanzania as l... Somalia: Steps being taken to free two foreign jour... Soccer: Kenya Tusker Football Club sacks coach Sudan: Darfur police raid victims shun being ai... Botswana: Two South Africans jailed for 18 years in ... Sudan: Sudanese passenger plane hijacked after ... Egypt: Israeli Defences Minister in Cairo for talks ... Angola: Ruling party may clean sweep in Angolan poll... Somalia: President Yousuf, Prime Minister ink deal... Zimbabwe: President Mugabe heckled, jeered in parlia... More News...