Iraqi PM: Al-Jazeera spokesman for "terrorists"; war until "last drop of blood".

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has said that Al-Jazeera "acts as a spokesman for the terrorists" in Iraq. He said that a group of independent observers had concluded that Al-Jazeera's reports were "false, factious and served the aims of the same forces which sow horror and death". Allawi said that in Iraq a war was being fought to the "last drop of blood against subversive forces which threaten freedom and civilized coexistence". He stressed the importance of the Italian forces' role in Iraq and called for an international "single front" against these "terrorists". The following is the text of an interview with Iyad Allawi by Lorenzo Cremonesi in Baghdad on 29 August entitled "'Those who do not fight alongside us will find terrorism in their homes'" - first paragraph is Corriere della Sera introduction; published by Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera web site on 30 August; subheadings inserted editorially:

"What we're talking about here are terrorists!"

Baghdad: "No civilized country can hold back. The fight against terrorism must be global. Because the challenge truly is global. There is no neutrality, as is shown by the seizure of the French journalists." In an interview in his office that lasted one and a half hours, Iyad Allawi yesterday reiterated his thanks to Italy and the need for …