Zarqawi claims responsibility for Baghdad's explosion, assassination of its governor al-Jihad

Al-Qaida organization in Mesopotamia led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the assassination of the governor of Baghdad Ali al-Haidari in al-Hurrieh quarters to the north of the capital and blowing up of a booby trapped fuel tank that targeted a headquarters for the forcers of the Iraqi ministry of the Interior in the downtown of Baghdad.

In a statement issued on the Internet coupled with a video tape the organization said that its fighter killed what it described "tyrants of American hirelings." The statement threatened that the way al-Haidari was killed "will by the fate of every and each traitor."

In a separate statement, al-Zarqawi organization claimed responsibility for the attack which targeted a headquarters for the Iraqi ministry of the interior in al-Qadeseyah quarters in the downtown of Baghdad on Tuesday morning and resulted in killing 13 of the emergency group and two Iraqi civilians and injuring other 56 persons.