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"Baghdad blast - A lesson for U.S."

BAGHDAD Aug. 25. An Islamist Internet site issued a statement today by a group close to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network which claimed to have carried out the truck bomb attack on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.

In the statement, which could not be authenticated, the Brigades of Martyr Abu Hafs al-Masri wrote: ``The attack in Iraq was a lesson for the United States,'' calling the United Nations ``a branch of the U.S. State Department''.

``This holy operation killed a number of criminals ... including Sergio Vieira de Mello,'' the U.N.'s top envoy in Iraq, one of the 23 people killed in the blast, said the text published on the website www.faroq.net/news. The truck bomb targeted the Canal Hotel, which housed the U.N. offices, and was, according to the statement: ``The main centre used to make the Iraqi people hungry, with the participation of murderer Saddam (Hussein) since 1990'' .

— AFP

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