CAIRO: An ex-Egyptian Army officer carried out the suicide bombing last month that unsuccessfully targeted the country’s interior minister, a video posted online Saturday by Al-Qaeda-inspired militants claims.

Military officials refused to comment on the video posted in the name of the Ansar Jerusalem militant group. But it comes as security officials already sacked one police officer over alleged ties with hard-liners.

The video posted on militant websites shows a man identified as Waleed Badr, who wears a major’s uniform. He says in the video that the Egyptian Army is “bent on fighting religion” and “loves America” more than Egyptians.