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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040706-013641-2255r.htm Iraqi security situation turns bizarre By P. Mitchell Prothero UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONALBaghdad, Iraq, Jul. 6 (UPI) -- The group of men wearing traditional Arabic headscarves, their weapons and rocket-propelled grenades at the ready, appear in a video broadcast on an Arabic language satellite news station making grim threats against foreigners they blame for violence in Iraq. "He must leave Iraq immediately, he and his followers and everyone who gives shelter to him and his criminal actions," said one of the men in Iraqi accented Arabic. But -- reflecting the increasingly bizarre security situation in Iraq -- the men were threatening Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian accused by the United States of masterminding many of the terror attacks in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime last year. "We swear to God that we have started preparing, God willing, to capture him and his allies or kill them and present them as gift to our people," the man the video said. "This is the last warning. If you don't stop, we will do to you what the coalition forces have failed to do." The warning by the group -- calling itself the Salvation Group -- comes as the new interim Iraqi government has been openly declaring war on foreign fighters thought to be using the restive city of Fallujah as a base, while also mulling an amnesty program for many Iraqis who resisted the American occupation. The ability of the previously unknown group to actually battle the foreigner fighters is unclear, but the broadcast came as one of several indications that the new government is serious about addressing the foreign jihadi problem. Over the past few days, a series of press conferences have been canceled as the new government attempts to reconcile human rights provisions of the interim constitution with a series of new security laws designed to stamp out an insurgency that has taken the lives of thousands of U.S. troops and Iraqis since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. But Iraqi officials said they would lay out the new regulations on Wednesday in an announcement that would also include certain amnesty provisions for Iraqis who fought coalition forces or aided those who did. At the same time, the wave of violence that most intelligence sources believed would sweep Iraq and Baghdad during last week's transfer of sovereignty has, so far, failed to materialize. And the new Iraqi National Guard has been actively patrolling Baghdad and Iraq to generally receptive Iraqi crowds. Although there has been some violence against some Iraqi and American forces, it has been atypically quiet on the security front throughout most of Iraq. But the new government has made no move to assert its authority in the city of Fallujah, considered the base of the most militant anti-American elements, or throughout much of the Sunni Triangle, where insurgents operate mostly freely. Late on Monday night, however, U.S. jets bombed a house in Fallujah, a location that both U.S. and Iraqi officials claimed served as a safe house for groups linked to Zarqawi. Although Allawi has defended similar attacks -- of which there have been as many as five in the last three weeks -- early Tuesday he took credit for the attacks, claiming that the new Iraqi security services had provided the information that led to the bombings. Allawi said the strikes would "terminate those terrorists, whose booby-trapped cars and explosive belts have harvested the souls of innocent Iraqis without discrimination, destroying Iraqi schools, hospitals and police stations. "The sovereign Iraqi people and our international partners are adamant that we will put an end to terrorism and chase those corrupt terrorists and will uproot them one by one," he said in the statement. "The people of Iraq will not tolerate terrorist groups or those who collaborate with any other foreign fighters such as the Zarqawi network to continue their wicked ways. "Iraqi security forces provided clear and compelling intelligence to conduct a precision strike this evening on a known Zarqawi safe house in southeastern Fallujah," the statement also claimed. In a related move reported in local Iraqi press accounts, an arrest warrant was issued by an Iraqi judge for Sheikh Abdullah al-Janabi, a religious leader in Fallujah's Golan neighborhood, who is considered by both Iraqis and American intelligence as a spiritual, if not operational, leader or cohort of Zarqawi's network of foreign fighters. This warrant could not be confirmed by the new Iraqi Ministry of Justice, which has yet to adopt the practice of returning phone calls from reporters. The responsibility of foreign jihadis for many of the more deadly operations -- usually involving suicide bombing and kidnappings followed by gruesome killings of hostages -- has been considered likely but unproven. But a videotape recently given to a reporter of Time magazine and later broadcast by Reuters television service shows a number of foreign fighters preparing martyrdom tapes, where the fighter prays and says goodbye to his comrades before embarking on a suicide mission. 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