[Ynet] Al-Qaeda's local franchise in Iraq has grabbed credit for a string of boom-mobileings in Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
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.