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Shi'ites claim Iraqi attack
12/05/2006 21:03 - (SA)
Cairo - In a rare claim, an armed faction of Iraq's Shi'ite community has said it attacked a US military vehicle and a car carrying Western contractors, according to a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera on Friday.
The pan-Arab satellite channel broadcast footage of the video that showed a US Bradley armoured vehicle and two cars being hit by what appeared by roadside bombs in separate attacks.
The video, and an accompanying statement about the Bradley attack, were issued by a group calling itself the People of Truth Factions.
The Qatari-based Al-Jazeera said the claim could not be authenticated.
The group gave no dates for the attacks, but its statement said the attack on the Bradley took place in the Saidiyah district of Baghdad.
The video showed a Bradley moving slowly along a road in an urban area. When the bomb explodes, the scene erupts in orange flames.
"The target suffered an immediate hit, which caused it and the ammunition inside it to explode, killing all the occupation soldiers inside," the statement said.
No casualties were shown in the video of either attack.
Al-Jazeera said the attack on the cars took place in Nasiriyah, about 320km southeast of Baghdad. The channel said one of the cars was carrying Western contractors.
In the video, viewers see two cars speeding along a stretch of road in the desert. Several bombs seem to detonate at the same time, engulfing the whole scene in thick grey smoke.
The video bears the name People of Truth Factions.
The group identified itself as Shi'ite by saying its fighters belonged to the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim Brigades. Al-Kadhim was a Shi'ite cleric of the 18th century.
- AP
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