A group led by Abu Musab alZarqawi, the Jordanian terrorist allied to Osama bin Laden, said that the “suicide attack†was revenge “for the harm inflicted by British occupation forces on our brothers in prisonâ€.
The soldiers from the 2nd Battalion The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment were injured in the incident by what is believed to have been a bomb hidden in a car.
It is the first evidence of the targeting of British soldiers since the photographs alleging abuse of Iraqi civilian prisoners were released by a court martial in Germany and published around the world.
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