Al Qaeda in Iraq

Abu Bakr al Baghdadi al Qurashi, al Qaeda in Iraq’s emir, claimed credit for the recent suicide attack in Hillah that killed 24 policemen. Baghdadi said the attack was executed to avenge Osama bin Laden’s death. “We are not of those who shed tears and sit idly by crying like women,” he said.

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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