Al-Qaida 'sets up new group of suicide bombers'
A new online posting purportedly by the al-Qaida group in Iraq has declared the creation of a new cell of suicide bombers and claimed it has already carried out a number of attacks.
“We gladly inform our sheikh Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi of the formation of al-Bara bin Malek Brigade,” said a man claiming to be Abu Doujana al-Ansari, the head of the new group.
It wasn’t possible to verify the authenticity of the four-minute-audio tape, which appeared on an Islamic website on Tuesday.
Al-Ansari said that the cell came in response to bin Laden’s call to attack US troops in Iraq.
According to the message, bin Laden urged insurgents to “terrorise the crusaders and their followers by striking their castles and destroying their spirits through suicidal attacks”.
The cell had launched a series of suicide attacks in Iraq, the man said.
