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| IGC head might not have been whacked by Zarqawi |
| 2004-05-18 |
| INVESTIGATORS now suspect that a car bombing that killed the president of the Iraqi Governing Council may not have been the work of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as first believed. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told reporters that forensic evidence obtained at the site of Monday's bombing suggested that "it might have been an attack conducted by a different group because of methodology in some of the techniques that were used." Kimmitt declined to elaborate. Yesterday, Kimmitt said the attack showed the "classic" hallmarks of an al-Zarqawi operation. A previously unknown group - the Arab Resistance Movement - claimed responsibility for the attack that killed Izzadin Salim near a US checkpoint outside the green zone, headquarters of the US-run coalition. In a statement posted on a website, the Movement identified two of its members who supposedly carried out the suicide attack as part of a "jihad" or holy war until Iraq and Palestine are liberated. The website carried other messages of praise for the killing. It also prominently mentions Anbar province, a Sunni-dominated area of activity against the US-led coalition in Iraq. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |