الرئيسية
BAGHDAD, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's affiliate in
Iraq has claimed responsibility for a slew of bombings that
killed at least 71 people in Baghdad last week, a group that
monitors online communication among insurgents said on Tuesday.
A suicide car bomber and multiple roadside bombs hit
Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite areas on Dec. 22 in the first attacks
on the capital since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq on Dec. 18.
In a sign of growing tensions within the government itself,
Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered the arrest of
Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi and asked parliament to
fire Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq.
The U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group said the Islamic
State of Iraq, an umbrella group for al Qaeda-linked insurgents,
had claimed responsibility for the attacks in a statement posted
on Islamist websites on Monday.
ISI said it had carried out the attacks in support of Sunni
prisoners. "The operations were distributed between targeting
security headquarters, military patrols...and eliminating the
heads of unbelief from amongst the security, military and
administration leaders of the Green Zone (Iraqi) government," it
was quoted by SITE as saying.
Iraq has claimed responsibility for a slew of bombings that
killed at least 71 people in Baghdad last week, a group that
monitors online communication among insurgents said on Tuesday.
A suicide car bomber and multiple roadside bombs hit
Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite areas on Dec. 22 in the first attacks
on the capital since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq on Dec. 18.
In a sign of growing tensions within the government itself,
Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered the arrest of
Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi and asked parliament to
fire Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq.
The U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group said the Islamic
State of Iraq, an umbrella group for al Qaeda-linked insurgents,
had claimed responsibility for the attacks in a statement posted
on Islamist websites on Monday.
ISI said it had carried out the attacks in support of Sunni
prisoners. "The operations were distributed between targeting
security headquarters, military patrols...and eliminating the
heads of unbelief from amongst the security, military and
administration leaders of the Green Zone (Iraqi) government," it
was quoted by SITE as saying.