Major Bomb Attacked Foiled in Kirkuk

We’re getting them one by one, but the al-Qaeda connection with the former Ba’athist regime is slowly coming to the fore:

Kurdish security forces have found 1,200kg of explosives in three rubbish skips, one of which had been placed on a key bridge in the northern oil capital of Kirkuk, a senior investigator said on Thursday.

The discovery followed the arrest on Wednesday of three suspected members of Ansar Al-Islam, a militant group linked by Washington to Al-Qaeda, carrying suitcases packed with explosives in the city.