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Al Qaida says it is behind raid on army base
The first attacker blew up an explosives-laden vehicle at the back gate of the military compound and four attackers wearing suicide vets and armed with assault rifles and grenades then stormed the compound and occupied a building, it said.
- Reuters
- Published: 00:00 September 8, 2010
- Image Credit: Reuters
- Eight suspects linked to recent bomb attacks are displayed to the media in Basra, 420 km southeast of Baghdad, on Monday.
Baghdad: Al Qaida's Iraqi affiliate claimed responsibility yesterday for a daylight raid by suicide bombers on an army base in central Baghdad in which 12 people died.
US forces became involved in Sunday's fighting less than a week after formally ending combat operations in Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group for Al Qaida-linked insurgents, said in a statement posted on a radical Islamic website that five suicide bombers were involved.
The first attacker blew up an explosives-laden vehicle at the back gate of the military compound and four attackers wearing suicide vets and armed with assault rifles and grenades then stormed the compound and occupied a building, it said.
"The engagement lasted inside the compound more than an hour, when the crusaders' planes and some of their patrols became engaged," the ISI statement said.
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