Bombs killed at least 40 people at markets in two Iraqi cities, hours after key lawmakers said seven Sunni Arab insurgent groups offered the government a conditional truce. Meanwhile, a top Iraqi commander said Baghdad’s forces would not be ready to keep the peace for at least a year in Anbar province, the insurgent heartland.
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/ 20 February 2006
Osama bin Laden promised never to be captured alive and declared the United States had resorted to the same ”barbaric” tactics used by Saddam Hussein, according to an audiotape purportedly by the al-Qaeda leader that was posted on Monday on a militant website.