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Bounty placed on heads of Iraqi leaders
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-13 08:58

Iraqi insurgents, run out of their northern stronghold in Tal Afar for the second time in a year, counterattacked with an Internet propaganda offensive Monday that put a bounty of about $200,000 on the heads of top Iraqi leaders.

Violence flared again in the ancient city late Monday when Iraqi soldiers trapped insurgents in basement hideouts, killing 40 militants in fierce combat, the military said. Most insurgents had fled Tal Afar as the U.S.-backed offensive began Saturday, many escaping through tunnels.

The new fighting raised the insurgent death toll in Tal Afar to near 200, the government said. Officials said seven Iraqi soldiers and six civilians died in the three-day offensive, while the U.S. military said no American soldiers were hurt.

Iraqi soldiers ride on top of an armored vehicle next to a U.S. tank, as they participate in an operation in Tal Afar, northwestern Iraq, Monday, Sept. 12, 2005.[AP]
Iraqi soldiers ride on top of an armored vehicle next to a U.S. tank, as they participate in an operation in Tal Afar, northwestern Iraq, Monday, Sept. 12, 2005.[AP]
Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari flew to Tal Afar on Monday to congratulate his army, and Al-Iraqiya state television said he went despite insurgent threats "to attack the city with chemical and biological weapons."

There was no known public threat from the insurgents to use unconventional weapons in Tel Afar, but militants made two Internet postings in recent days vowing to stage chemical attacks on Baghdad's Green Zone — home to the U.S. Embassy, Iraq's parliament and government offices.

The Islamic Army in Iraq, which has previously claimed responsibility for kidnappings and killings of foreigners, made the bounty offer for the assassination of key Iraqi officials.

The militant group called in a Web posting for its "holy fighters to strike the infidels with an iron fist." It offered $100,000 to the killer of al-Jaafari, $50,000 for the interior minister and $30,000 for the defense minister.

Iraq's U.S.-trained forces and U.S.-backed government are waging their own media offensive, using the Tal Afar operation to position themselves as a confident and strong team now leading the fight to wipe out insurgent forces.

"I met today with the commander of the 3rd Division in Tal Afar and his officers and soldiers and found them in high spirits," al-Jaafari said. Hundreds of Iraqis danced, sang and waved flags as the prime minister toured the region.

The U.S. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, which sent 3,500 soldiers in support of the 5,000-member Iraqi force, appeared to minimize its role in Tal Afar in favor of a high profile for the increasingly muscular Iraq military.

Interior Minister Bayan Jabr said the insurgents were turning to Internet threats because the Tal Afar offensive had badly shaken the militants.

"It was a great shock to al-Qaida. They were thrown off balance and issued this threat," he said at a news conference.

The insurgents' threat to use chemical weapons was not being taken lightly. Last month, U.S. troops raided an insurgent hideout in the north that the U.S. military said may have produced chemicals for use against coalition forces. About 1,500 gallons of various chemicals were found in the hideout in Mosul, which is 35 miles east of Tal Afar.

"There were 11 precursor chemicals, which are dangerous by themselves, and mixed together they would become even more dangerous," Lt. Col. Steve Boylan, a military spokesman, said at the time.

Defense Minister Sadoun al-Dulaimi kept up his recent verbal assaults on Syria, whose eastern border is about 50 miles from Tal Afar. "Syria is not only the loophole, but it is the evil's gateway on this country," he said.

U.S. and Iraqi officials complain Syria has failed to stop the influx of foreign fighters through its territory into Iraq, and al-Jaafari ordered the border crossing with Syria nearest to Tal Afar closed Saturday night.

"It looks like Syria has assumed the historic role of creating chaos in Iraq," al-Dulaimi said, claiming the Syrian government opposed the regime of Saddam Hussein and now seeks to undermine Iraq's U.S.-backed successor government.

Syria rejected the scolding, with a Foreign Ministry official calling the charges "absolutely untrue."

"Iraqi officials are fully aware that Syria is exerting all-out efforts to control the borders," Syria's official news agency quoted the unidentified official as saying.

In other developments Monday:

_A car bomb exploded outside a restaurant in Baghdad, killing at least two people and wounding 17.

_Police in the capital reported finding the bodies of 10 unidentified men who had been tied and shot to death.

_Two Kurdish security guards died and three were wounded when gunmen shot up their vehicle in Mosul. On the city's outskirts, police found two burned bodies.

_In the northern city of Kirkuk, gunmen killed two police officers.



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