(AP) The Brigades of Abdullah Azzam, an al-Qaeda-linked group, said Wednesday one of its suicide bombers had hit the Japanese oil tanker in the Persian Gulf last month to avenge the plunder of Muslim wealth. A crew member was injured and the vessel sustained a square-shaped dent on the rear side of the hull during the incident. The Brigades have in the past claimed responsibility for the August 2005 firing of Katyusha rockets that narrowly missed a U.S. navy ship docked at Aqaba in Jordan and the July and October 2004 bombings at Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik and two other resorts that killed a total of 98 people.
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