Iraqi group claims making rockets
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
CAIRO: A voice purported to be of the leader of an Al Qaeda-linked group in Iraq claimed in an audiotape posted on the Internet on Tuesday that the group had begun manufacturing its own rockets. …
The rocket, called al-Quds-1 (Jerusalem-1), has “moved into the phase of military production with an advanced degree of range and accuracy … such that it can compete favourably with the world’s weapons systems with the same design goals,” al-Baghdadi said.
The claim that the group was making rockets would be virtually impossible to verify and al-Baghdadi did not elaborate further on the nature of the new weapon. …
Hezbullah No. 2?