Iraq’s interim prime minister has signed a long-anticipated law that gives him the authority to impose emergency measures to safeguard the country’s security, an official in his office said today.

IRAQ'S prime minister may offer amnesty to insurgents and could extend it to those who killed American troops in an apparent bid to lure Saddam Hussein loyalists from their campaign of violence.

Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s new government is considering offering an amnesty to Iraqi rebels who fought the U.S.-led occupation, perhaps even pardoning those who killed Americans.