Iraq: Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) claims recent Baghdad attacks
An al-Qaeda-linked group has claimed responsibility for a coordinated suicide bomb and gun attack on the country’s justice ministry last week that killed at least 18 people.
Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), an umbrella group for al Qaeda-linked fighters, said in a statement published online on Sunday that it had ordered the suicide bombers to attack the building floor by floor and “liquidate” its enemies inside.
“In a blessed raid among a series of operations for revenge… Baghdad’s knights undermined another vicious bastion which was always a tool against Sunnis, torturing, terrifying, imprisoning and executing them,” the group said in the statement.