Al-Qaeda late on Saturday claimed a suicide bomb attack in early March, which killed five, including an American diplomat and a US Consulate employee in Karachi just before US President George W. Bush visited. "Dozens of suicide operations have been carried out in Pakistan and Afghanistan within the large Al-Qaeda campaign against Zionists and crusaders, including the attack against the US Consulate in Karachi a day before the arrival of the biggest crusader (US President George W. Bush)," the organization said.
The statement, signed "Al-Qaeda, of the Afghanistan Jihad (holy war)" vowed that 2006 "would be decisive and that this summer would be hell for crusader soldiers and their agents among the renegades". No organization had previously claimed responsibility for the March 2 attack.
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