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| Zarqawi sez he killed Iraqi coppers |
| 2004-10-10 |
| The group headed by suspected Al-Qaeda operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi has claimed responsibility for a car bombing in western Iraq on Wednesday that authorities said killed 10 police recruits and that the group said left 40 dead. A statement on an Islamist website late Saturday said "one of the lion's cubs of the 'Brigade of Candidates for Martyrdom," belonging to the group Tawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War) managed to infiltrate members of the infidels' would-be civil defense ... killing 40 of them." The statement, at www.ansarnet.ws/vb/, could not be independently verified. In a rare car bombing in Iraq's barren western plains, a suicide attacker on Wednesday rammed his vehicle into a group of people signing up with the national guard at a military base in Anah, some 260 kilometres (160 miles) west of Baghdad. Police said 10 young recruits were killed and 24 wounded in the latest attack on the fledgling force, which has been repeatedly targeted by the insurgents. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |