BAGHDAD, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for bombing the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad last week, a report said Monday.
The Al Hayat newspaper published the letter, which said the Baghdad operation was a "lesson to the U.S." The communique, which was signed by the Abi Hafs Al Masri brigades -- the same party that claimed responsibility for the power failure in New York and Toronto -- used the same terms that al-Qaida is in the habit of using.
Al-Hayat obtained the communiqué from a radical Internet site. It gave details about the operation and the way it was carried out after it considered that the U.N. "works against Islam" and "represents the U.S. State Department and beautifies its ugly face."
The missive claimed "The mujahedin carried out the strike behind the building, so that none of the innocent Iraqis passing through gets hurt."
