Apparently cutting off heads is much too fun to give up. The Peninsula (Qatar):

The Al-Qaeda-linked group of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said yesterday it was determinated to continue its jihad or holy war after Iraq's new president proposed an amnesty for insurgents, an Internet statement said.

"The agent of America, Jalal Talabani, announced a so-called amnesty for the mujahedeen, whom he called on to take part in political life," said the statement on an Islamist website whose authenticity could not be verified.

"We in the Organisation of Al-Qaeda in the Land of Two Rivers, we will never pardon you for your infidelity, spilling of the blood of Muslims and harming their honour," it said.

As for killings by Iraqi insurgents, Talabani said, "There are two kinds of killing: In battle or in action, this could be covered by the amnesty. Those who are involved in killing innocent people, detonation of car bombs, killing people in mosques and in churches, these would not be covered by the amnesty." ...

It is essential that we separate those who came from outside the country, like all those organizations affiliated with al Qaeda, from Iraqis," Talabani said. "We must seek to win over the Iraqis to the democratic process going on in the country and fight the criminal gangs" from outside the country.

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