Letter-Bomb Mailed to Supplier of Iraq
Bomb experts have defused a letter-bomb addressed to an Austrian firm that has business dealings with Iraq, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Friday.
The package addressed to the engineering firm of Grill and Grossmann was intercepted on Wednesday after a letter claiming responsibility arrived at the mass-circulation daily newspaper Kurier.
The letter, carrying a silhouette of a Kalashnikov rifle and headed “In The Name of Allah the Merciful,” accused the firm of selling poison gas equipment to Iraq.
It was signed, “The Sons of Imam Elhussein Ben Ali,” a group the spokesman said was hitherto unknown.
Grill and Grossmann denies selling poison gas equipment to Iraq but says it has delivered equipment to make synthetic resin.
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