Zarqawi group says it carried out attacks

A GROUP led by al-Qaida-linked operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for a wave of attacks across Iraq yesterday which killed 75 people.

Zarqawi group says it carried out attacks

“Your brothers in Jama’at al-Tawhid and Jihad launched a wide assault in several governorates in the country which included strikes against the apostate police agents and spies, the Iraq army alongside their American brothers,” said an Arabic-language statement.

“Your brothers in the martyrdom brigade also carried out several blessed operations including five in Mosul on five Iraqi police centres, two operations in Baquba and another in Ramadi,” said the statement which was posted on an Islamist website.

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