音频下载[点击右键另存为]An Iraqi branch of al Qaida, which goes by the name of the Islamic State of Iraq, is claiming responsibility for Sunday's back-to-back suicide bombings in Baghdad that killed more than 150 people. Iraqi officials, meanwhile, are accusing groups outside the country of instigating the explosions.
Two days after bloody twin-suicide bombings killed more than 150 people in the center of Baghdad, an Iraqi group with ties to al Qaida is claiming responsibility for the attacks.
The group, which calls itself the Islamic State of Iraq, posted a message on a Web site Monday claiming its "martyrs" attacked what it called the "refuge of infidels," in an allusion to the sprawling government headquarters near Baghdad's Green Zone.
Two key Iraqi government buildings, the Justice Ministry and Baghdad's provincial government command center, were gutted by the blasts.
Al Qaida's Internet statement refers to the Iraqi government as the "pillars of the Safawi and rejectionist state in the land of the caliphate," accusing the predominantly Shi'ite Iraqi government of working for Iran inside the Sunni heartland.
The same group took responsibility for similar twin suicide blasts in August that left 95 dead. Neither claim has been verified, and Iraqi officials have repeatedly accused
