Iraq: Four Arabs Confess To An-Najaf Blast

We captured four suspects Friday, none of them Iraqi, all of them Arab. They told us there were three others with them," the source said.

One police source told the Associated Press the men had connections to al-Qaeda and said they wanted to "keep Iraq in a state of chaos".

The SCIRI London representative said the arrests led him to believe there was an alliance between al-Qaeda and veterans of Saddam regime.

"I suspect there was a collaboration here between al-Qaeda and Saddam’s people, as well as in the blasts at the U.N. headquarters and Jordan embassy (in Baghdad)," charged Hamed al-Bayati.

Discussing the three devastating attacks in a short span of three weeks, he said: "They are using new tactics – cars bombings, suicide bombings that have the fingerprints of al-Qaeda.

"But al-Qaeda cannot act alone in Iraq. They must have help from inside. That would be Saddam’s loyalists."

Friday’s car bombing came close on the heels of the truck bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad on August 19 and the bombing of the Jordanian embassy in the first week of August.