A group led by suspected al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the suicide car bomb attack on Iraq’s Justice minister on Saturday, according to a statement posted on an Islamist Web site. The statement by the military wing of Zarqawi’s Tawhid and Jihad Group said a volunteer from its “Martyrs’ Brigade” had carried out the attack on the “apostate traitor” Malik al-Hassan. The bomber blew up his vehicle as a convoy carrying Hassan drove past in Baghdad, killing four people but not harming the minister, police and U.S. troops at the scene said. Full Story
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