#Al-Qaida in Iraq claims responsibility for assault in northern Iraq

By Associated Press

BAGHDAD — Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility Saturday for an attack and hostage-taking that killed 57 people at a government building in northern Iraq.
In a statement released on the militants’ Website, the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida front group, described the attack as a “response on the crimes committed against Sunni prisoners.”
According to the statement, five al-Qaida affiliates carried out the attack using a car bomb, explosive belts and hand grenades.

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