THE US has designated the Iraqi insurgent group of Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi a "foreign terrorist organisation" and slapped on sanctions, a day after it claimed responsibility for deadly twin attacks in Baghdad's Green Zone.
Seems like the sort of thing they should have done with the first boom, certainly at least with the first head that came off... | At the same time, US and Iraqi troops hunting Zarqawi encircled the rebel city of Fallujah as residents protested that Iraq's most-wanted man was not there. The hunt meanwhile continued for Zarqawi, who on Thursday claimed two bombs that ripped through Baghdad's once-impregnable Green Zone, home to the US embassy and Iraqi government, killing at least five people. More than 1000 US and Iraqi ground troops formed a ring around Fallujah after blistering air strikes overnight that left at least eight people dead. They "have taken up vehicle checkpoints ... with the purpose of channelling anti-Iraqi forces through these main points of passage, identifying and detaining them", marine spokesman Lieutenant Lyle Gilbert said. He refused to say if marines would enter the city.
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