Al-Qaeda in Iraq Claims Baghdad Attacks

What a bunch of bastards:

Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- An umbrella group led by Al-Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for twin suicide car bomb attacks in Baghdad that killed 155 people, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant Web sites.

The Islamic State of Iraq issued a statement on militant Internet forums yesterday saying it carried out the Oct. 25 bombings that targeted the Justice Ministry and Baghdad provincial administration, SITE said on its Web site. The blasts also wounded hundreds.

The car bombings, the deadliest assaults in more than two years in Iraq, followed explosions in Baghdad on Aug. 19 that struck the Foreign Ministry and other targets, killing almost 100 people. The Islamic State of Iraq also claimed responsibility for that attack.

But it appears this attack, like all of Al Qaeda's attacks in that country may have backfired:

BAGHDAD — Iraqi officials reached a tentative agreement on a new election law on Monday, even as workers continued to recover more bodies from the wreckage of Sunday’s bomb attacks, including an uncertain number of children from two day care centers.The toll climbed to as many as 155 dead, with more than 500 wounded and an unknown number still missing.The violence appeared to have jolted members of Parliament into action: Calling the bombings an attack on the national unity government, Iraqi leaders swiftly responded with a compromise agreement on a new election law that had eluded them for weeks and threatened to delay national elections scheduled for January.