In a televised address Saturday, al-Maliki defended the security forces and blamed an alliance of the Baath Party and al Qaeda for Wednesday's bombings.
Attackers in the Aleppo province city of al-Bab fired rockets at the main branch of President Bashar al-Assad's ruling Baath party Saturday, the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The spokesman for al-Ahmed's wing of the Baath Party in Syria contended Monday that the videotaped statement was fabricated and alleged that the man could have been paid to make it.