Saturday, July 9 2005 15:05 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Dubai: Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for this week's deadly bombings in London today (July 9, 2005) in an Internet statement posted in the name of the Europe Division of the network's Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades.

"A group of Mujahedeen from a division of the Abu Hafsal-Masri Brigades piled blow after blow on the infidel capital, the British capital, leaving dead and injured," said the statement, the euthenics of which could not be verified.

This was the second claim posted on an Islamist website in the name of the group purporting to be an Al Qaeda affiliate.

The Masri division congratulated itself on 'This laudable conquest' and warned that more attacks would follow.

"The next days will be marked by the biggest demonstrations of Jihad (Holy war) against those who have declared war on Islam and Muslims," it said.

The same group claimed responsibility for the March 2004 Madrid train bombings in which 191 people died and twin bombings in Istanbul in November 2003 that killed 25 people.

"The beginning was in Madrid and in Istanbul, now it's London and tomorrow the Mujahedeen will express themselves again. We will only calm down when security is a reality in the land of Islam and for Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine," the statement said.