Al-Qaida group ‘behind Iraq attacks’

A GROUP saying it is an Iraqi branch of the al-Qaida terror network said it - and not Saddam Hussein – is behind the armed resistance against US forces in Iraq, according to a tape shown on an Arab TV station today.

Al-Qaida group ‘behind Iraq attacks’

The Dubai-based al-Arabiya satellite station aired a four-minute video tape showing a black-and-white still photograph of a man dressed as an Islamic cleric with a message read over the top by a distorted male voice.

The identity of the man in the photograph was not immediately clear. An executive from the station had no details on the man.

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