AN al-Qaida-linked group that claimed responsibility for the London bombings threatened yesterday to launch “a bloody war” on the capitals of European countries that do not remove their troops from Iraq within a month.

An al-Qaida-linked group that claimed responsibility for the London bombings threatened today to launch “a bloody war” on the capitals of European countries that do not remove their troops from Iraq within a month.

The Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for last week’s Madrid train bombings has warned that its next targets could be Britain, Japan, Italy, or Australia, an Arabic newspaper reported in Cairo.

Turkish police have arrested number of men who are suspected of involvement in the deadly suicide bombings on the British consulate and a London-based bank that were blamed on al-Qaida.