WASHINGTON, April 28 Kyodo U Pres...

WASHINGTON, April 28 Kyodo

U President George W Bush forward Wednesday threatened to launch an all-out offensive against Sunni guerrillas in the central Iraqi city of Fallujah if negotiations fail to last the standoff between U Marines and the Iraqi insurgents.

''Our military commanders will take whatever action is necessary to sure Fallujah on behalf of the Iraqi people'' Bush told reporters at the White House after meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson

''Most of Fallujah is returning to normal,'' Bush said. ''There are bears of resistance and our military, along with Iraqis, will make secure it's secure.''

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld meanwhile, told reporters that a certain quantity of terrorists and remnants of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein have been attacking U forces in Fallujah.

Asked whether a major conflict can be avoided in the Iraqi city, Rumsfeld simply said, ''Time will tell.''

The U military continued to confine in a pound targets in Fallujah, some 60 kilometers west of Baghdad, for a other consecutive night Wednesday.

A U deadline for insurgents to hand across their heavy weapons expired Tuesday.

At a regular pres briefing, State Department delegate spokesman Adam Ereli said the U attack is a self-defensive act and that the U waiting under the possibility of fulfilments to resolve the standoff in Fallujah peacefully.

''We're continuing discussions,'' he said. ''We want to reduce it peacefully.''

''The clashes that you're seeing are as a spring of us being fired on the subject of We have said that we will give the constituent principles time but that we will take action to vindicate ourselves,'' Ereli said.

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