Al-Qaida-Linked Group Claims Rocket Attack from South Lebanon
A statement singed by the Ziad al-Jarrah division of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed Monday it was behind the Katyusha attack against northern Israel last week.
"Your brothers fired two Katyusha rockets from south Lebanon which landed in the Nahariya settlement north of the occupied Palestine," said a statement on web sites used by militants.
The group cited Israel”s blockade of the Gaza Strip and the prevention of worshippers from praying at the Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem as reasons for the attack.
Ziad al-Jarrah, a Lebanese militant, was one of the group of 19 who carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. Abdullah Azzam was a preacher close to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
It could not be immediately determined whether the statement was authentic.
Abdullah Azzam Brigades said it carried out deadly bombings at the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh in 2005.