Terrorists claim Palestinian spy chief attack

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The Qaeda Organization of the State of Palestine, also vowed to target other senior officials, including Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. The group also expressed its support for al-Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

"Your brothers in the Qaeda Organization of the State of Palestine were capable of reaching the workplace of ... (Tareq) Abu Rajab," said the statement, which was not posted on Web sites usually used by terror groups, including al Qaeda.

"The Mujahideen were able to plant a bomb in the elevator," it added. The statement's authenticity could not be immediately verified.

Palestinian General Intelligence Chief Tareq Abu Rajab, an ally of Abbas, was seriously wounded after an explosion in an elevator at his Gaza Strip headquarters that killed one of his bodyguards and wounded five others.

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