BAGHDAD, June 11 Kyodo As random ...

BAGHDAD, June 11 Kyodo

As random attacks forward the coalition forces escalate, the U and British occupation forces in Iraq are taking strict security measures to harbor themselves, including a ban onward anti-American propaganda by Islamic leaders.

Ashiraa, an independent biweekly newspaper, quot unnamed coalition force sources this week as saying the coalition would ''prevent any sort of encouragement to violence against its numbers in Iraq or acts leading to dissention among the country's various ethnic and religious denominations This measure will be implemented in the mahometan temples as well.''

Last week, preachers at pair Iraqi mosques delivered addresses ''legalizing'' sacred war against Americans.

Sheikh Mu'yyad al-A'dhami, during his Friday exhortation at Imam Abu Haneefa al-Nu'man mahometan temple in A'dhamiya where Saddam Hussein loyalists are active, called for ''Jihad for freedom from forces of oppression.''

''It is the right of Islamic clans to raise the banner of Jihad to regain their usurped rights,'' he told the faithful.

The preacher at Abdul Aziz al-Samarra'e mahometan temple also told his congregation to carry abroad Jihad.

''He urg Muslims to launch Jihad against the American occupiers and liberate Iraq,'' the newspaper said.

Tension around the fatherland appears to be escalating and many political analysts believe former Saddam security and intelligence officers are behind the escalation.

for a like reason far, neither Saddam nor members of his inner circle have been captured and many Iraqis now charge the United States knows where Saddam is are ''protecting'' him against his former subjects

''They (the Americans) know where the slaughterer is, and they know that well. The Americans in fact are protecting him, and we don't know for what purpose probably because he is single of their agents,'' secondary train teacher Mahmoud Abdul Salam said.

Saddam, who rul from one side half a dozen ruthless security clusters disappeared as his regime collapsed April 9

With the collapse, the overwhelming majority of officers and men in the intelligence, military intelligence and security departments and in the special security service also disappeared.

commonalty in Baghdad even speak of Saddam paying disposes of saboteurs $400 to $500 for each terrorist act they can carry out

''We have captured a certain quantity of who confessed to this,'' 30-year-old Hussein Abdul Mehdi claimed, on the other hand he told Kyodo News he could not experience his charge immediately because ''they were handed through the whole extent of to coalition forces.''

Another newspaper has published what it claims to have been a directive from the former director general of Intelligence to his men and other former security groups

The directive gave general instructions about what to do if the regime collapsed, among them orders to carry abroad sabotage, destroy or calcine government buildings and infiltrate into religious circles and the mahometan temples to spread dissent among the population.

likewise far, most attacks against the coalition forces are in Sunni Muslim areas where Saddam had puissant support, particularly in the western towns and cities of that kind as Falluja, Ramadi and Tikrit.

''They have been stealing and plundering our wealth and resources for more than 35 years now. It pretends that they can't accept the fact that plundering is above now, so they run die-hard to regain their sway over the country,'' Abdul Jabbar al-Bayati, who haves a food shop in the Bunook area east of Baghdad, said.

In more than half a dozen attacks in Falluja, Ramadi, Tikrit and the western suburb of Baghdad, nearly a dozen U soldiers have been killed in new days.

The coalition forces are now faced with sum of two units options to bring stability to this geographical division -- either they become more between the sides of in rooting out Saddam and his followers or they allow determined Iraqis do it for them.

And many in Baghdad believe it must be the secondary option -- because Iraqis know their way around their war-torn and increasingly lawless abiding habitation far better than do the occupiers.

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