Iraq blames al Qaeda for February shrine attack

[ECH1969]

Iraq on Wednesday accused al Qaeda militants in Iraq, including four Saudis, for the February 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine that pushed the country to the brink of civil war.

National Security Adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie said Iraqi Haitham al-Badri, the al Qaeda leader in Salahaddin province, masterminded the attack.

He told a news conference Badri was in a charge of an al Qaeda unit consisting of two Iraqis, four Saudis and a Tunisian identified as Abu Qudama.

Abu Qudama was wounded several days ago in Dhuluiya, north of Baghdad, in clashes with U.S. and Iraqi forces in which 15 other foreign militants were killed. Rubaie said Abu Qudama confessed to the bombing of the shrine.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/28/AR2006062800271.html

[FloridaPat]

1. So I guess that al Qaeda group doesn't get it's 72 virgins for

desecrating the most holy shrine in Iraq?

[MrPrax]

2. Keep at it al-Rubaie

and use the electrodes more...Abu Qudama will confess to the Kennedy assassination as well.

Whose 'National Security Adviser' is he? Ours or some ersatz Iraqi knock-off?