Al-Zarqawi's group claims responsibility for killings in Mosul, . . .

AP ^ | 11/28/4 | MAGGIE MICHAEL

[SmithL]

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's most feared terror group claimed responsibility Sunday for slaughtering members of the Iraqi security forces in Mosul, where dozens of bodies have been found. The claim raises fears the terror group has expanded to the north after the loss of its purported base in Fallujah.

Meanwhile, insurgents attacked U.S. and Iraqi targets in Baghdad and in Sunni Arab areas, underscoring the risks of holding national elections on Jan. 30.

Two U.S. soldiers were injured in a Baghdad attack, and another American soldier died in a traffic accident north of the capital, the military said.

U.S. and Iraqi forces killed 17 suspected insurgents in raids south of the capital Sunday, Iraqi police said. Operations there included a dawn speedboat assault by U.S. Marines and British and Iraqi troops on suspected insurgent hideouts along the Euphrates River, British media reported.

A statement posted on an Islamist Web site in the name of al-Qaida in Iraq, led by Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for killing 17 members of Iraq's security forces and a Kurdish militiaman in Mosul, where insurgents rose up this month in support of guerrillas facing a U.S.-led assault in Fallujah.

The claim could not be independently verified but the style of writing appeared similar to other statements by al-Zarqawi's group, which is responsible for numerous car bombings and beheadings of foreign hostages in Iraq.

[SmithL]

Headline too long:

Al-Zarqawi's group claims responsibility for killings in Mosul, raising fears terror cell has moved north from Fallujah

[EGPWS]

The claim raises fears the terror group has expanded to the north after the loss of its purported base in Fallujah.

Nice reporting AP, when the headline should read: The terror group fears have forced them out of Fallujah and after taking a serious loss to their credibility in being a force to contend with, sought higher ground elsewhere in their rapid retreat.

[JesseHousman]

Muhammed was a terrorist. He was among the most evil and deceitful men who ever lived. The fraud he perpetrated has caused billions of muslims to live in social, economic, religious and intellectual poverty.

His legacy is Jihad--holy war--against all non-muslims. His Koran orders the the faithful to wipe infidels out to the last, to deceive them, to ambush them, to enslave them, to torture them, and to murder them!

Face it, infidels, we can never live in peace with these maniacs!

[blakep]

Fourty-three insurgents have been arrested in Mosul over the past 24 hours.

They can't hide.......

It's not hard to pay a gang of terrorists to sneak up on a group of iraqi military guards and hold them captive as they are sitting ducks.

We have the task of hunting these invisible brownshirts, gathering intelligence, etc.