Two London-based Arabic-language publications said Sunday that they had received separate statements asserting al Qaeda’s responsibility for the suicide bombings near two Istanbul synagogues that killed 23 people and injured 303. A group linked to al Qaeda, the Abu-Hafs al-Masri Brigades, said in an e-mail to the daily al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper that it conducted the bombings in Istanbul on Saturday and that al Qaeda planned attacks in other countries, including the United States. “We tell the criminal Bush and his Arab and Western tails — especially Britain, Italy, Australia and Japan — that cars of death will not stop at Baghdad, Riyadh, Istanbul, Nasiriyah, Jakarta, etc, until you see them with your own eyes in the middle of the capital of this era’s tyrant, America,” the statement said. Full Story
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