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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 06:06 AM
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Ansar al-Islam denies role in U.N. bombing-paper
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L24323837.htm

ROME, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Militant group Ansar al-Islam said on Sunday it had not carried out the bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, but warned the United States and Britain that they could face new attacks. snip

"I think it was rather an operation born inside the country and carried out by Saddam's faithful," he added. snip

"America runs the risk of new attacks if it doesn't concede space to Islam. Not only in Iraq but in its own back yard...," he said.

Asked who else should fear an attack, he replied: "In Europe no-one apart from Britain..."

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Kbowe Donating Member (272 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-24-03 08:04 AM
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1. This makes me think "black-bag" either CIA or Mossad.
It just doesn't make sense that Iraqis would blow up the only friends they have...but we know from past history that there have been "black bag" operations that were blamed on Arabs.
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