A new online posting purportedly by the al-Qaeda group in Iraq has declared the creation of a new cell of suicide bombers and claimed it has already carried out a number of attacks.
``We gladly inform our Sheik Osama Bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi of the formation of al-Bara Bin Malek brigade,'' said a man claiming to be Abu Doujana al-Ansari, the head of the new group.
It wasn't possible to verify the authenticity of the four-minute-audio tape, which appeared on Tuesday on an Islamic web site known as a clearing house for al-Qaeda-linked material. Al-Ansari said that the cell came in response to bin Laden's call to attack US troops in Iraq. According to the message, Bin Laden urged insurgents to ``terrorize the crusaders and their followers by striking their castles and destroying their spirits through suicidal attacks.'' The cell had launched a series of suicide attacks in Iraq, the man said. |