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The leader of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq ordered a renewed bombing campaign against Iraqi security forces in a recording posted on an Islamist website last night.
"This campaign should be based on explosives and its target should be the apostates ... wearing uniforms and all those who fight alongside the occupiers," Abu Omar al-Baghdadi said in the tape.
"Every soldier [militant] is to detonate at least three bombs [from now] until the end of the campaign," he said. The campaign would continue until an Islamic date corresponding to the last days of January, he added.
"O God's ally seek martyrdom operations as they are the most harmful to the enemies of God," said Baghdadi.
- REUTERS
