Al-Qaida announces yet more attacks in Iraq

Posted by Geronimo Boosh on December 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The Iraqi branch of terror network Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Baghdad, with more than 120 dead. The Organization of Islamic State in Iraq has taken over in an online Islamic forum, the responsibility, said that the observation of Islamist websites specialized SITE U.S. companies on Wednesday. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Baghdad on Thursday.

When acting Gates’ visit to Baghdad was a routine meeting with the Iraqi leadership and with U.S. forces in the country, said Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell. Gates was meeting with other Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and eat with senior representatives of U.S. forces in the evening. Currently are still some 115,000 U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq, but their number will decrease by the end of August 2010 to 50,000. The complete withdrawal of U.S. troops is expected by late 2011. Recent Gates had visited Iraq in July.

With regard to the serial blasts in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday said Morrell, Gates would provide the Iraqis the help of U.S. soldiers to face the consequences of the attacks. Large-scale attacks like those of Baghdad, showed the “desperate attempt” by Al-Qaeda and allies of the terrorist network, “remain important, and destabilize the Iraqi government,” said Morrell. “I do not think anybody believes that this will succeed.”

Prime Minister Maliki, meanwhile, sees clearly the security of his country through a tough dispute over filling the post of chief of intelligence at risk. At a hearing before the Parliament in Baghdad, Maliki has accused rival political groups blocking actions in the conflict, said the Shiite MPs el Samira Mousavi, who was at the hearing here.

The post of chief of intelligence is vacant for months. Wednesday evening, Maliki had been dismissed because of the attacks also the security chief of Baghdad, the office, but promptly re-occupied. The hearing was convened at the request of deputies to interview Maliki to the series of attacks by Baghdad.

When such simultaneous explosion of five car bombs in different neighborhoods of Baghdad, at least 127 people were killed and more than 400 others were injured. It was one of the heaviest attack since the start of series.