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Female suicide bomber kills six in Iraq
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-28 19:17
On Tuesday, Iraqi and U.S. forces announced they had shot and killed Abdullah
Abu Azzam, the No. 2 leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, in a raid on a high-rise
apartment building in Baghdad over the weekend. The coalition called Abu Azzam
the mastermind of an escalation in suicide bombings that have claimed nearly 700
lives in Baghdad since April, and said he was the financial controller for
foreign fighters who entered Iraq to join the insurgency.
Al-Qaida in Iraq issued an Internet statement denying Abu Azzam was the
group's deputy leader, calling him "one of al-Qaida's many soldiers" and "the
leader of one its battalions operating in Baghdad." The statement confirmed the
Baghdad raid but said it was not certain yet whether he was killed.
Iraqi government spokesman Laith Kubba warned that
insurgents would likely carry out revenge attacks for Abu Azzam's death. He said
the militant "was supervising on a daily basis almost all the attacks that
happened (in Baghdad) ... He was fully responsible for preparing and sending the
car bombs that killed hundreds of innocent Iraqis."
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