October 25, 2004
GLOBE AND MAIL
Baghdad — Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's guerrilla group has claimed responsibility for the ambush in eastern Iraq in which about 50 Iraqi soldiers were killed, according to a statement posted on a website Sunday.
In a statement on the website signed by a group calling itself Al-Qaeda in Iraq, formerly known as Tawhid and Jihad, the group claimed responsibility for the execution-style killings of the American-trained, unarmed soldiers.
On Saturday, insurgents waylaid three minibuses carrying the soldiers home on leave and massacred about 50 of them on a remote road near the Iran border, Iraqi officials said.
The Iraqi soldiers were on their way home after completing a training course at the Kirkush military camp northeast of Baghdad when their buses were stopped by rebels about 150 kilometres east of the capital, Interior Ministry spokesman Adnan Abdul-Rahman said.
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