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07/08/2005:
"Iraq Links London Attacks to Insurgency"
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Islamic extremists have been using Iraq as a planning center for attacks around the world since losing Afghanistan as their base in 2001, the government's chief spokesman said Friday.Speaking about Thursday's blasts in London that killed more than 50 people, Laith Kubba said "we don't know exactly who carried out these acts but it is clear that these networks used to be in Afghanistan and now they work in Iraq."
The spokesman said that insurgents in Iraq and those who carried out the London attacks "are from the same network. There are different groups in the world, but they all follow the same school."
Kubba was referring to hardline Muslim extremists who label people that don't agree with them as infidels.
"We don't know exactly who enters Iraq then leaves to carry out attacks with explosives around the world," he told The Associated Press.
Full:yahoo.com
o whatever whatever whatever. blame Iraq (and Syria)
Iraq's government has accused Syria of allowing insurgents to cross its porous border into Iraq — a claim Damascus denies, saying it cannot fully control its portion of the frontier.
