Terrorists acts

The Iraqi branch of al-Qaida, linked to Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has claimed responsibility for Friday's rocket attack aimed at two U.S. Navy ships in a Jordanian port. Jordanian officials have arrested a Syrian man they accuse of carrying out the attack, although police say his three accomplices escaped across the border into Iraq.

The group calling itself al-Qaida in Iraq issued an Internet statement claiming responsibility for the Aqaba rocket attack, which killed a Jordanian soldier and wounded another. The group is led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is accused of masterminding some of the deadliest attacks in Iraq and carries a $25 million bounty on his head. The statement attributed to his group could not be authenticated.

It is the second al-Qaida-linked group to claim credit for Friday's attack, which targeted two U.S. Navy warships moored in the Red Sea port but failed to hit them. The other group is the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, which also claims to have carried out two earlier bombings in the Egyptian Sinai peninsula.