THEY don’t care about the water. It’s just a tool to destabilise the Government and accumulate power. It’s what they do. It’s what they’ve always done — find an issue with which they can mobilise people, then go and do it.

MILITANT groups posted internet videos yesterday claiming to have beheaded an Iraqi soldier and killed an alleged informant, while insurgents launched attacks that left four US troops dead.

A MILITANT group said yesterday it had taken six more hostages - three Indians, two Kenyans and an Egyptian - and would behead them if their countries did not immediately announce the withdrawal of their citizens from Iraq.

A MILITANT group holding two Bulgarian truck drivers hostage in Iraq said last night it had executed one of them and planned to kill the other in 24 hours.

A MILITANT Palestinian group that claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in Israel said yesterday it had sent a first batch of its suicide bombers to Baghdad to fight invading US and British forces.