Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki on Tuesday said that his security forces arrested a terrorist allegedly involved in Baghdad deadly bombings that killed and wounded more than 600 people, Xinhua reported.
"The detainee confessed that he committed the attack on the Justice Ministry with the complicity of 73 other terrorists," Maliki said in a news conference here.
He said that he personally checked the interviews with those arrested in connection with the October 25 attack near the Justice Ministry and Baghdad Provincial Council, and he referred to a question to a detainee saying "why did you choose the Justice Ministry building?"
He added that the answer was that "because it was close to the street and has many windows with large glasses which means many people would be killed."
"Who ordered you to carry out the attack?" Maliki continued and said that the detainee answered "The Baath party did."
Maliki frequently accused Saddam Hussein's Baath party members and Qaida militants for the recent deadly attacks that scored hundreds of Iraqi victims.
On October 25, also named "Bloody Sunday", two suicide truck bombings rocked Baghdad's Salhiyah neighborhood, killing some 155 people and wounding more than 500 others.
Maliki also said that the Sunday attacks toll included 30 children killed at two nurseries for justice ministry workers.
The two attacks were the deadliest since suicide truck bomb attacks on Aug. 19 which targeted two Iraqi ministries, killing and wounding some 1,300 Iraqis.
Sunday's blasts came as violence dropped dramatically during the past two years since the spike of sectarian strife that claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the war- torn country.
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