Five U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq
Five more U.S. soldiers lost their lives Saturday in Iraq, victims of car bombings.
The clerics in Fallujah are threatening a jihad if the U.S. doesn't quit trying to take over the city.
In a separate statement read Friday in Sunni mosques in Baghdad and elsewhere, Fallujah clerics threatened a civil disobedience campaign across the country if the Americans try to overrun the city.
The clerics said if civil disobedience were not enough to stop a U.S. assault, they would proclaim a jihad, or holy war, against all U.S. and multinational forces "as well as those collaborating with them."
They insisted that the Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi was not in Fallujah, claiming his alleged presence "is a lie just like the weapons of mass destruction lie." "Al-Zarqawi has become the pretext for flattening civilians houses and killing innocent civilians," the statement said.
A Fallujah delegation said it would resume negotiations with the U.S. if it would stop bombing the city.
In Afghanistan, two U.S. soldiers were killed by a bomb Saturday.
And an Annenberg military poll shows:
62 percent in the military sample said the administration didn't send an adequate number of troops to Iraq. And 59 percent said too much of a burden has been put on the National Guard and the reserves when regular forces should have been expanded instead.
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