Ansar al-Sunnah in Iraq issued a communique on Monday, October 30, 2006, accepting responsibility for a fidayeen operation targeting puppet general Serhad, the director of the police in the jurisdiction of Kirkuk and surrounding areas, at a police administration building in Kirkuk.
The group states that they planned the general's assassination for approximately six months, citing the puppet\'s declared war on the Mujahideen and serving the Shi'ites and jewish supporters, Massoud al-Barzani and Jalal al-Talabani, as cause. He was first targeted by the group in a roadside bombing operation between Kirkuk and Tikrit on September 29, 2006, but he survived. The group states: "We warned him that if he is not going to repent we are going to be after him, but these kinds of people do not repent".
The group found that a fidayeen bombing would be the only way to ensure General Serhad's death so they dispatched one of their members for the operation. The bomber detonated his explosive belt at the puppet general's office in a puppet police administration building, during a meeting.
The message indicates that those puppet officers inside the meeting and most of the puppets present in the adjacent hall were killed. Ansar al-Sunnah then addresses the apostates, warning: "Repent to live in peace, you and your people, and we will not touch any of you with harm; otherwise, we still have many arrows which will not miss you, Allah willing", the Washington-based SITE Institute reported.
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