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Saddam loyalists claim UN, Red Cross and Italian bombings
Baghdad, Dec 08: Pro-Saddam guerrillas have claimed responsibility for devastating car-bombings of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) offices in Baghdad, which forced the two bodies out of most of Iraq.
Baghdad, Dec 08: Pro-Saddam guerrillas have claimed responsibility for devastating car-bombings of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) offices in Baghdad, which forced the two bodies out of most of Iraq.
"The attack against the UN headquarters was carried out by Ba’athists," said Abu Mohammad, a rebel tribal chief loyal to the ousted President. He was referring to members of the former ruling party.
"Saddam Hussein gives instructions and those who must carry them out find the means to do so," he said, noting that anything that strengthens the occupation is a target.
“Guerrillas chose the targets on their own according to political or sentimental motives," Abu Mohammad explained.
"Those who carried out the operation against the UN headquarters did it thinking that it would have an impact on the population because the UN was the symbol of 13 years of embargo."
"We are aware that politically it harmed us because everyone said the guerrillas had not respected international law," he said of the August 19 blast that killed 22 people including UN special envoy Sergio Viera Di Mello.
On the website WWW.Al-moharer.net Saddam's men claim responsibility for the October 27 Red Cross bombing which killed 12 people.
"The martyr operation" against Italian troops in the southern city of Nasariyah on November 12 is also listed on the site. Bureau Report
"Saddam Hussein gives instructions and those who must carry them out find the means to do so," he said, noting that anything that strengthens the occupation is a target.
“Guerrillas chose the targets on their own according to political or sentimental motives," Abu Mohammad explained.
"Those who carried out the operation against the UN headquarters did it thinking that it would have an impact on the population because the UN was the symbol of 13 years of embargo."
"We are aware that politically it harmed us because everyone said the guerrillas had not respected international law," he said of the August 19 blast that killed 22 people including UN special envoy Sergio Viera Di Mello.
On the website WWW.Al-moharer.net Saddam's men claim responsibility for the October 27 Red Cross bombing which killed 12 people.
"The martyr operation" against Italian troops in the southern city of Nasariyah on November 12 is also listed on the site. Bureau Report