| Jordan’s Islamists issued a religious edict Tuesday banning the deployment of Arab forces in Iraq as long as the U.S.-led occupation persists. "Whoever offers a service to help Iraq’s occupation is an atheist and any Arab or Muslim country which deploys troops in Iraq under American occupation would be committing treason," said Ibrahim al-Kilani, the head of religious committee at the Islamic Action Front, Jordan’s leading opposition party. Al-Kilani said the edict bans Arabs and Muslims from contributing peacekeeping forces to Iraq after the Coalition Provisional Authority hands over power to an interim Iraqi government June 30. Arab League Secretary-General Amr Mousa said last month Arab states won’t dispatch troops to Iraq after June 30 unless a U.N. Security Council mandate is in place or Iraq submits an official request. |