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Al-Qaida claims attack on Iraq security HQ
SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press
Updated 3:48 p.m., Monday, August 13, 2012

BAGHDAD (AP) — Al-Qaida's branch in Iraq claimed responsibility Monday for a double bombing that targeted a counterterrorism unit in Baghdad last month.

The al-Qaida statement claimed 70 people were killed in the July 31 attack on the security headquarters. Government and security officials put the death toll for all the violence that hit the capital that day at 21.
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Security forces and government offices are top targets for insurgents seeking to undermine the Shiite-led Iraqi government's authority.
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in early 2012, al-Zawahri urged Iraqi insurgents to support the Sunni-based uprising in neighboring Syria against President Bashar Assad, an Alawite.

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