Al Qaeda in Iraq

The Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaeda’s front group, took credit for the Dec. 8 suicide attacks in Baghdad that resulted in 127 Iraqis killed and more than 500 wounded. “Bastions of evil and dens of apostates” were the targets of the attacks, the terror group said in a statement released on he Internet.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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