Al-Zarqawi loyalists claim suicide attacks ‘spoiled Iraqi elections party’

MILITANTS loyal to Islamic extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who vowed an all-out war against Iraq’s election, claimed more than a dozen suicide attacks against voting stations on polling day.

“We have spoiled their party. We have struck them with grievous attacks,” said a statement posted on the internet, whose authenticity could not be independently confirmed.

“Before this statement was published, 13 lions from the martyrs brigade of the al-Qaida Group of Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers attacked centres of the infidel in various regions of Iraq.