Website death threat to Iraqi leader

A militant linked to al Qaida, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has issued a website statement claiming responsibility for an attack on a home used by Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi.

The statement, posted on a site known for such claims, promised to pursue the leader seen by Iraq’s militants as being a collaborator with US president George Bush and the 160,000 foreign troops in Iraq.