March 06, 2004

USATODAY.com - President lauds Iraqi constitution

[President] Bush also said Tuesday's suicide bombings of Shiite shrines in Baghdad and Karbala, which killed at least 181, were the work of both supporters of the former Saddam Hussein regime and foreign terrorists. He pointed to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant with al-Qaeda links, as "one of the terrorist leaders," suggesting he was to blame for the attacks.