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| Zarqawi sez he boomed Baghdad today |
| 2004-05-06 |
| A statement purportedly by an Iraqi group headed by leading al Qaeda-linked figure Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for Thursday's suicide attack outside the U.S. headquarters in Baghdad. "At dawn on Thursday the heroic fighter Abu Mitab from the land of the Haramain (Saudi Arabia) went out in a car laden with 600 kg of TNT toward the headquarters of the occupying forces and their tails, the apostates...and the operation was a success," said a statement by Jamaat al-Tawhid and Jihad which the United States has said is headed by Zarqawi. It was not immediately possible to verify the authenticity of the Arabic-language statement published on Muntada al-Ansar Islamist Web site. A suicide bomber killed five Iraqis and an American soldier and wounded 23 Iraqi civilians and at least three U.S. soldiers at the so-called Green Zone which used to be Saddam Hussein's Republican Palace. "The enemy often claims that the mujahideen target innocent people but those killed today belong to the secret police and intelligence who were waiting for their masters' permission to enter the palace," the statement added. It said efforts by the United States and its allies to protect their strategic interests "have all gone with the wind." "The mujahideen...are still capable of striking the enemies' strategic sites and at the suitable time and place." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 They are able to strike at strategic sites because we haven't struck their SA money men and our true enemy Iran. June 30 should be a date for a releasing of the hounds. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-05-06 11:34:21 AM |