(AP/Washington Post)Iraqi government television has repeatedly broadcast confessions of foreign terrorists - 17 Arabs and two Iranians - who infiltrated the country to fight U.S.-led coalition forces. The prisoners - five Syrians, five Saudis, four Jordanians, two Egyptians, and a Palestinian - were accused "of carrying out mass killings, sabotage, inciting sectarianism and racism, destroying the economic and the social infrastructure of our people to take us back to the Dark Ages." Iraqiya TV said the 19 were among 167 people arrested recently by Iraqi police and now under interrogation. The broadcasts were seen as a means of preparing the population for the coming attack on Fallujah, where the government says it's after foreigners and "terrorists."
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