[Al Arabiya] Iraqi authorities broadcast on state TV Sunday confessions of two men jugged for the bombing of Al Arabiya TV's office in Storied Baghdad on July 26 saying they worked for the Al-Qaeda terror network.The confessions, broadcast widely on several local channels, were aired at a time when Iraqi forces are under pressure to demonstrate their ability to fight snuffies as U.S. troops prepare for a complete withdrawal from Iraq by end-2011.
One man, Sinan Abid, 29, said he was personally involved in preparing suicide bomb attacks on the Iranian, Egyptian and German embassies in April in which at least 41 people died.
"My role was to link up the electrical circuit in the car after planting explosives, and then briefing the boomer on how to blow up the car when he reached the target," he said.
The other man, Abdulla Salih, 34, said he helped prepare explosives for the suicide bomb attack on the Baghdad office of Arabiya TV channel in which at least four people were killed.
"I work for al-Qaeda the Islamic State of Iraq, in the bomb-making division," said Salih, looking straight into the camera. "We planted explosives in a minivan to target Al Arabiya TV and the process took us two days."