Perpetrators
The U.S. military announced on 14 June 2007 that it had “detained 25 suspects in raids against al-Qaida in Iraq over the past two days.” This included a suspect “believed to be a close associate of Omar al-Baghdadi, who heads the al-Qaida front group Islamic State in Iraq.” On 16 June 2007 three American troops were killed by explosions near their vehicles – two in Baghdad and one at Kirkuk province.
The alleged mastermind of both the minaret bombings and the February 2006 blasts, Haitham al-Badri, was killed in August 2007 by a U.S. airstrike.
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