'Baghdad bomb was revenge'
2005-09-14 12:32
Baghdad - Militants loyal to al-Qaeda's Iraq frontman said in an internet statement on Wednesday that they had carried out a wave of suicide bombings in Baghdad to avenge an offensive by United States and Iraqi government troops on the northern rebel town of Tal Afar.
"The conquest of revenge for the Sunni people of Tal Afar has
started," Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al-Qaeda Organisation in the Land of Two Rivers said in the statement, whose authenticity could not be verified.
It said its "brigades" had launched a series of attacks, led by its elite "martyrdom-seeking" brigade.
The statement did not claim responsibility for any of the
suicide bombings which rocked Baghdad on Wednesday, only promising to "release more (details), God willing, as soon as news comes in of the operations in Baghdad and other cities."
The deadliest attack, which left 80 dead, struck in the Shi'ite
pilgrimage district of Kadhimiyah, as day labourers gathered in the early morning waiting to be hired.