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Qaeda claim Iraq suicide attacks
[Dawn] Al Qaeda's front group in Iraq grabbed credit for two recent suicide kabooms that killed 37 people, in an Internet posting seen on Tuesday.A blast on July 5 in the city of Taji north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... killed 35 people and maimed 28, and a June 26 kaboom by a bomber in a wheelchair killed two people and injured 17 at a cop shoppe in a nearby town. "One heroic martyr targeted Tarmiyah cop shoppe during a meeting," said the statement by the Islamic State of Iraq, posted on Islamist forum Honein on Monday. "This brother who wore a suicide belt and rode a wheelchair went kaboom!"." The second attack (in Taji) targeted a filthy meeting including security officials and local city council officials." June saw the highest monthly corpse count for Iraqis so far this year, while the 14 US soldiers killed last month was the highest such figure in three years. Storied Baghdad has blamed al Qaeda for the increased corpse count for Iraqis, which was up 34 per cent on May, while the US military holds Iranian-backed Shiite militias responsible for the deadly attacks on its troops. Posted by: Fred 2011-07-20 |
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