Iraqi insurgents claim to have missing explosives

An armed group claimed today to have obtained a huge amount of explosives missing from a munitions depot in Iraq and warned that it will use them if foreign troops threaten cities.

A group calling itself Al-Islam’s Army Brigades, Al-Karar Brigade, claimed “heroic mujahedeen have managed by the grace of God and by co-ordinating with a…number of the officers and the soldiers of the American intelligence to obtain a very huge amount of the explosives that were in the al-Qaqaa facility, which was under the protection of the American forces”