Iraq offered to hand up 1993 bomb suspect

Iraq has rejected US claims of ties to a terror group believed to be linked to al-Qaida, and has offered to give Washington a suspect in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said Baghdad had no links to Ansar al-Islam nor an alleged al-Qaida fugitive Abu Musaab Zarqawi, who has been connected with the murder of a US diplomat in Jordan and poison plots in half-a-dozen European countries, including Britain.