Al-Qaeda affiliate claims in Web posting it killed key Sunni sheik in Iraq
Al-Qaeda's front in Iraq claimed responsibility in a Web statement Friday for the slaying of Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, a leading figure in the US-backed revolt of Sunni sheiks against the terror network.
"Allah enabled your brothers ... to track down and assassinate the imam of infidelity and apostasy ... one of the dogs of (US President George W.) Bush," said the statement by the Islamic State of Iraq. It described Thursday's murder of Abu Risha, killed by a roadside bomb near his home in Anbar province, as a "heroic operation that took over a month to prepare." (AP)
