Zarqawi claims Baghdad car bomb
2005-05-07 17:37
Dubai - The group of Al-Qaeda's frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for a car bombing Saturday in Baghdad that killed at least 15 people, including two American security guards.
An Internet statement that could not be verified said "your brothers from the Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Land of Two Rivers placed a car bomb in Tahrir Square... in Baghdad and blew it up as CIA car passed by, blowing up three vehicles in which the occupants were killed."
US embassy spokesman Adam Hobson said earlier that 15 people died in a double bomb blast in busy Tahrir Square around 11:05 am, including two Americans.
"Two suicide bombs were involved," Hobson said. "There were 15 fatalities, two of which were American contractors."
Hobson declined to release the names of the contractors killed or the name of the security company they worked for until relatives could be notified.
- AFP