Posted on 05/17/2004 10:10:56 AM PDT by areafiftyone
DUBAI, May 17 (Reuters) - An Iraqi resistance group said two of its members carried out the attack that killed the head of the Iraqi Governing Council on Monday, an Islamic Web site said. Izzedin Salim was killed along with at least six other people in a car bombing in central Baghdad.
"Two hero members of the 'Arab Resistance Group - al-Rashid Brigades'...carried out the heroic operation which led to the death of the mercenary traitor Izzedin Salim," said a statement posted on the site.
"The Brigades promise our nation's people that they will fight until the liberation of Iraq and Palestine," it said.
It did not say if it was a suicide mission that killed Salim, head of the U.S.-appointed Council. The two men were named as Ali Khaled al-Jabouri and Mohammed Hassan al-Samarrai.
U.S. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said a car bomber had been waiting in a queue of vehicles at a checkpoint outside the main Baghdad headquarters of the U.S.-led administration.
Salim, who was the current holder of the rotating Governing Council presidency, was the second of the 25-member Council to be killed. In September gunmen assassinated Aqila al-Hashemi, one of three women on the council.
It was not clear if the Rashid Brigades had previously claimed any attacks against the U.S.-occupying forces or the U.S.-backed Iraqi authorities.
We have intel on who their family memebers are. heh heh
"Iraq AND Palestine?"......anyone else notice that?
I see that now.
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