Deliver Zarqawi ‘or face military crackdown’

IRAQ’S interim prime minister yesterday threatened military action against the main insurgent stronghold of Fallujah if residents don’t hand over Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Deliver Zarqawi ‘or face military crackdown’

Fallujah, in Iraq’s Sunni Muslim heartland, is believed to be a stronghold of al-Zarqawi’s feared Tawhid and Jihad group, which has kidnapped and beheaded foreigners and has carried out bloody bomb attacks.

“If they do not turn in al-Zarqawi and his group, we will carry out operations in Fallujah,” Prime Minister Ayad Allawi told a meeting of the interim National Council yesterday.

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