Al-Jazeera airs suicide-bombing video

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• Arab network shows what it says is April suicide blast in Algiers
• Video reportedly created by North African al Qaeda affiliate
• Blast targeted office of Algeria's prime minister, killed 24

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(CNN) -- The Al-Jazeera television network Tuesday aired footage purportedly showing one of the suicide bombings last month in Algeria that killed at least two dozen people.

According to the Arabic-language network, the video was created by al Qaeda in the Maghreb, a regional al Qaeda affiliate in North Africa that has claimed responsibility for the April 11 terrorist attacks, which targeted the prime minister's office in Algiers and a police station in the eastern part of the capital.

Al-Jazeera did not say how it obtained the material, the authenticity of which CNN has not independently verified. (Watch what Al-Jazeera says is video provided by al Qaeda )

The portion aired by Al-Jazeera showed preparations being made for the bombing, followed by the actual blast and a statement from the leader of the group, Abu Musab Abdel Wadud, promising more attacks and urging young Muslims to volunteer for "martyrdom."

"He who misses this war misses the opportunity of a lifetime and gets deprived of the reward," he said in the video.

Algerian Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem was not hurt in the bombings, but at least 24 people were killed and 222 were wounded.