The statement was posted on a website frequently used by the group's leader, Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, the most-wanted man in Iraq.
The statement says the campaign is being launched to avenge comrades recently killed by U.S. and Iraqi forces in the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar. The claim could not be authenticated.
Earlier today, a suicide car bomber killed more than 100 people and wounded 162 others in northern Baghdad.
Hadi, a worker who was at the scene of the attack, said: "We gathered and suddenly a car blew up and turned the area into fire and dust and darkness. People ran away [from the blast], there was chaos everywhere."
It was the most severe of a series of attacks in the Iraqi capital today in which at least 12 other people were killed.
Earlier, attackers in military uniforms shot to death 17 handcuffed and blindfolded men in a village north of Baghdad.
(AP/Reuters/dpa/AFP)
See also:
Car Bomb Kills 100 In Baghdad As Talabani Visits Washington
For the latest news and analysis on Iraq, see RFE/RL's webpage on "The New Iraq".
The statement says the campaign is being launched to avenge comrades recently killed by U.S. and Iraqi forces in the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar. The claim could not be authenticated.
Earlier today, a suicide car bomber killed more than 100 people and wounded 162 others in northern Baghdad.
Hadi, a worker who was at the scene of the attack, said: "We gathered and suddenly a car blew up and turned the area into fire and dust and darkness. People ran away [from the blast], there was chaos everywhere."
It was the most severe of a series of attacks in the Iraqi capital today in which at least 12 other people were killed.
Earlier, attackers in military uniforms shot to death 17 handcuffed and blindfolded men in a village north of Baghdad.
(AP/Reuters/dpa/AFP)
See also:
Car Bomb Kills 100 In Baghdad As Talabani Visits Washington
For the latest news and analysis on Iraq, see RFE/RL's webpage on "The New Iraq".
