Al-Qaeda claims Iraq bombs that killed 55
Al-Qaeda's local franchise in Iraq has claimed responsibility for a string of car bombings in Baghdad that killed 55 people.
In a statement posted late Monday hours after the bombings that mostly targeted Shiite neighborhoods, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant says the attacks were in retaliation to the "arrests, torturing and targeting of Sunnis" by the Shiite-led government. (AP)
