Iraqi National Security Adviser Blames Zarqawi For Church Bombings

BAGHDAD, Aug 2 (AFP) - National security adviser Muwaffaq al-Rubaie on Monday accused Al-Qaeda's alleged chief in Iraq of masterminding a wave of church bombings to drive a wedge between Muslims and Christians.
"We have basically all the blueprint that indicats that Zarqawi and his gangsters were responsible," Rubaie told AFP.
"His motive is to drive a wedge between the Muslim and Christian community in Iraq," he added, vowing an immediate set of heightened security measures to protect the Christian minority.
"At every church we are going to have a police car 24 hours a day and we will patrol all religious sites," he said.
Six bombings targeted four churches in Baghdad and another in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens of others.
Rubaie said "at least one suicide bomber" had been involved in the bombings, at the Mosul church.
Police had managed to defuse two other car bombs in Baghdad, but confirmed that no one had so far been arrested in connection with the attacks.