Iraqi fighters may be offered amnesty

Baghdad - Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's new government is considering offering an amnesty to Iraqis who fought the US-led occupation, possibly pardoning those who killed Americans.

"If he was in opposition against the Americans, that will be justified because it was an occupation force," Georges Sada, Allawi's spokesman, said on Saturday of rebels who may be offered amnesty. "We will give them freedom."

But the amnesty suggestion has been met with scepticism by some Iraqis.

One former army officer who described himself as a "helper to the resistance" in Falluja said Allawi's plan would find little traction because his government is seen as illegitimate.

"I do not want to return to the new Iraqi army and be put in a situation where I have to open fire on my countrymen in order to defend the Americans," said Muhammad al-Janabi, once a colonel in the disbanded Iraqi army. -- Al-jazeera

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