Fallujah free of foreign fighters, group says

[Barrett808]

(Al-Sabah al-Jadeed) - Clerics and sheiks of Fallujah have denied the existence of any non-Iraqi Arab or foreign fighters in the city. They asked, in a statement issued by the edict board and human rights society there, to form a committee from all over Iraq to come to Fallujah to investigate whether the city is free from such fighters and to safeguard the city from the bloodshed now being practiced under allegations of the existence of al-Zarqawi in the city. The head of the edict board, Dhafer al-Obaidi, asked all Iraqi bodies to support the city. Continuing attacks on the city only would make things worse, he added.
(Al-Sabah al-Jadeed is an independent daily paper.)

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