A previously unknown Iraqi group claimed responsibility for the attack on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad this week, an Arabic television channel said on Thursday. Dubai-based Al Arabiya said it received a statement claiming responsibility from an Iraqi Islamist group calling itself the "Armed Vanguards of the Second Mohammed Army.""The statement promised to make war on all foreigners and do similar acts," the station, showing a picture of the statement in Arabic, said. "It warned Arab countries against sending armed forces to Iraq and called for continuing what it called acts of jihad (holy war) against all those who help the Americans, even if they are Arab or Muslim," the station said.
They could be these guys that DEBKA told us about yesterday:
Muhammad’s Army This group of Iraqi Baathists operates in the guise of Muslim fundamentalists. They are concentrated around Baghdad international airport and the cluster of military airfields in Habania and western Iraq, H-1, H-2 and H-3, armed with shoulder-launched Sam 7 anti-air missiles. In July, they tried to down a US fighter plane and a C-130 transport but missed both. |