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| Iraq |
| Qaida Claims Iraq Police Academy Attack |
| 2012-03-18 |
| [An Nahar] Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq has claimed a suicide car booming at a Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... police academy a month ago that killed 15 people and maimed 21 others, a U.S. monitoring group said on Saturday. The February 19 bombing was the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital in weeks, and was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in a statement posted on a jihadist forum on Friday, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors bad boy websites. "The operation targeted the headquarters of the general police academy... where tens of the graduates of the officer training program were gathered," the forum post said, according to a translation provided by SITE. "These graduates are qualified by the Safavid government to periodically control land in the Sunni areas and impose the reality of the situation in strengthening the rule of the (Shiites) in the land," it said. Sunni forces of Evil often invoke Iran's Safavid past, referring to the Shiite dynasty that ruled Persia between the 16th and 18th centuries and conquered part of Iraq, when denouncing the Storied Baghdad government, which they say is controlled by Iran. The posting also included a list of 29 operations carried out by the ISI in Storied Baghdad between February 13 and February 29. |
| Posted by:Fred |