Suicide bombers en route to Iraq

A MILITANT Palestinian group that claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in Israel said yesterday it had sent a first batch of its suicide bombers to Baghdad to fight invading US and British forces.

The al-Quds brigades of the Palestinian radical movement Islamic Jihad “regales our people with the news of the arrival of the first batch of its suicide attackers in Baghdad”, a statement said.

The statement said they would be fighting alongside Arab volunteers against “the new Mongols that are invading the capital of the Islamic caliphate”, in a reference to the 13th century sacking of Baghdad.