Fedayeen of Islam claims Marriott bombing
A SHADOWY group calling itself Fedayeen of Islam has claimed responsibility for the deadly bombing of Islamabad's Marriott Hotel in a telephone call to Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television, the channel said today.
So Baitullah's got a new name-de-jour, huh ... | Its correspondent in the Pakistani capital said he received a text message on his mobile phone showing a telephone number, which he called and then heard a recording in which the group admitted launching Saturday's attack.
The speaker on the recording spoke in English "with an Asian accent,'' he said.
A suicide bomber rammed a truck packed with more than half a tonne of explosives into the security gates of the luxury hotel, killing at least 60 people and wounding more than 260 in a massive fireball.
Posted by: Oztralian 2008-09-22 |