BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An al Qaeda claim on Friday that Iraqis carried out a triple suicide bomb attack in Baghdad raises troubling questions over whether more locals are joining a deadly campaign dominated by foreign militants.
"The suicide attacks on the Green Zone were conducted by followers from the land of the two rivers (Iraq). May God grant them entry to paradise," said an al Qaeda statement posted on a Web site a day after Thursday's abortive attack.
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