Al-Zarqawi Group Claims Baghdad Suicide Bombing

World | December 13, 2004, Monday // 00:00
Al-Zarqawi Group Claims Baghdad Suicide Bombing At least seven people have been killed and up to 19 wounded when a car bomber struck at an entrance to the Green Zone in central Baghdad. Photo by Al Jazeera

A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for Monday's suicide bombing at a police checkpoint outside Baghdad's 'Green Zone' which killed at least seven people and wounded another nineteen. "On this blessed day, a lion from the martyrs battalion struck a group of apostates and Americans in the Green Zone," Al Qaeda Organization for Holy War in Iraq said in a statement posted on a Web site. The authenticity of the statement was not immediately verified.

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