Former Iraqi troops demand payment

THOUSANDS of sacked Iraqi soldiers marched on the US-led administration yesterday and threatened to launch suicide attacks on American troops in Baghdad unless they were paid wages and compensation.

More than 3,000 angry soldiers from the disbanded Iraqi army massed outside the administration headquarters, in a presidential palace, shouting slogans and vowing a wave of attacks on US troops unless they got their money.

“All of us will become suicide bombers,” said Khairi Jassim, a former warrant officer. “I will turn my six daughters into bombs to kill the Americans.”