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I think Mr al-Zarqawi has over stayed his welcome...Al-Zarqawi is a member of Al Queda and has claimed responsibility for the attacks on coalition forces and the citizens of Iraq.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (July 6) ----
On Tuesday, a previously unknown group calling itself the ''Salvation Movement'' threatened to kill Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
the Jordanian Islamic radical accused in numerous attacks.
''This is the last warning. If you don't stop, we will do to you what the coalition forces have failed to do,'' said a masked
gunmen
who
appeared
in a video with four other militants.
A day earlier, U.S.-led coalition forces launched an airstrike on a suspected al-Zarqawi safe house in the militant stronghold
of Fallujah. The attack killed 15 people, witnesses said.
The
bombing
in Khalis, near the city of Baqouba, apparently targeted local officials attending the wake for a victim of an attack Sunday
that targeted the council's chairman and killed his brother. Hundreds of mourners were drinking black coffee symbolizing grief
when the car blew up within yards of the tent, said Maj. Gen. Walid Al-Azawi.
The governor of Diyala province, Abdullah al-Juburi, had just left the wake when the blast went off. Guerrillas have been
targeting local officials and police throughout Iraq because they are seen as collaborators with Americans.
Violence has rocked Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, in recent weeks. U.S. 1st Infantry Division soldiers hammered
insurgents who tried to seize government buildings and police stations only days before the June 28 power handover.
Some of those assaults were blamed on al-Zarqawi's network, which launched a series of car bombings before the handover
that killed nearly 100 people, many of them civilians. His followers have also claimed responsibility for the beheading of
American Nicholas Berg and South Korean Kim Sun-il.
In a videotape sent to Al-Arabiya television Tuesday, the ''Salvation Movement'' questioned how al-Zarqawi could use Islam
to justify assassinations, kidnappings and the killings of innocents.
''He must leave Iraq immediately, he and his followers and everyone who gives shelter to him and his criminal actions,'' said a
man on the video, speaking in an Iraqi accent.
''We swear to Allah that we have started preparing ... to capture him and his allies or kill them and present them as gift to our
people,'' the man said.
The speaker stood alongside four other men, all with their faces covered with Arab head scarves, flanked by rocket propelled
grenades, pistols, rifles and an Iraqi flag.
Allawi's government has been trying to figure out how to deal with the violence. His defense minister met with senior NATO
officials Tuesday to carve out a possible role for the alliance in the country, and Iraqi officials said they would announce a
new security law Wednesday.
In other attacks, a roadside bomb targeted a British military convoy Tuesday, killing one civilian and injuring two, said Capt.
Mushtak Taleb, an Iraqi police spokesman. No British forces were wounded.
And in Baghdad, the U.S. military said troops fired on a car that failed to heed warnings to stop at a checkpoint Monday,
killing one child and wounding another