Iraq: al-Zarqawi Group Claims It Killed A US Consul

The terror group led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda in Iraq, claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a suicide attack on an American convoy in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday in which it says the US consul in Mosul was killed. However, there have been no reports of the death of a US consul, but on Monday a diplomatic security agent attached to the US State Department, Stephen Sullivan, died along with three private American security guards when a suicide bomber drove into their convoy.

In a statement posted on the Internet al-Qaeda in Iraq said: "Brother Karim Ansari from the city of Tel Afar from the Al-Bara bin Malik Suicide Brigades carried out an attack on a convoy of American vehicles yesterday carrying the US consul in Mosul, who was killed along with four of his personal bodyguards when two of the cars carrying them were destroyed."

In the message the terror group points out that the action is another attack carried out in response to the US military offensive on the rebel stronghold of Tel Afar, which ended last week. One military spokesman recently said that since August 26 they had arrested 211 suspects and killed 141 fighters in Tel Afar.

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The U.S. said U.S. Assistant Regional Security Officer, Stephen Eric Sullivan, was killed in Iraq when a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device destroyed his vehicle Monday in Mosul.

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so he could instantly post his "claims" to this mysterious Internet al-Qaeda website from anywhere in the world.