Iraqi security on Sunday aired videotaped confessions by two suspected insurgents claiming responsibility for several major attacks in Baghdad that killed and injured scores this year, DPA reported.
The two suspects said they belonged to the Islamic State of Iraq group, an umbrella organization made up of Islamist insurgent groups, including al-Qaeda operatives in Iraq.
The recorded messages by the suspects, aged 26 and 29 years, were aired at a press conference by Baghdad security chief Qasim Atta. The conference was broadcast on local iraqi and regional TV channels.
In the two separately taped confessions, which aired for around 10 minutes, the suspects confessed to preparing car bombs used in the attacks.
The two men confessed to embassy attacks in April that killed over 50 people. The suspects said they used car bombs that targeted the German, Egyptian and Iranian embassies in Baghdad.
Iraqi security forces also aired the suspects confessing to being involved in the preparation of two suicide attacks that targeted the Iraqi Commercial Bank and the Baghdad office of the Al-Arabiya satellite television station.
Security chief Atta pointed out that the insurgents used large cars or vans in the attacks, making it easier for them to hide the explosives.
"It also enables them to carry large amounts of explosives and deceive security by the large number of passengers in the vehicle," Atta told the conference.
Iraqi security have aired taped confessions before and were criticized by rights groups for doing so.
According to the London-based rights group Amnesty International, taped confessions have been accepted as evidence by courts, which lead to some death sentences, "although it is well established that torture and ill-treatment of detainees remains rife in Iraq."