A three-man delegation from Iraq's American-picked Governing Council, led by former Iraqi foreign minister Adnan Pachachi, was scheduled to attend yesterday's UN Security Council debate on Iraq.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report to the Security Council that the Governing Council "will provide a broadly representative Iraqi partner with whom the United Nations and the international community at large can engage."
But he said Iraqis need to "see a clear timetable leading to the full restoration of sovereignty. There is a pressing need to set out a clear and specific sequence of events leading to the end of military occupation."
Also, the Arab satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera aired what it said was videotape of a new insurgent group called the "Jihad Brigade."
The tape showed several men sitting on the floor wearing white robes and with red keffiyehs covering their faces. They clutched guns and grenade launchers.
One man read a statement vowing to "take revenge" for all Iraqis killed by American forces: "We will make the earth shake under their feet," he said.
"We will kill the spies and traitors," another man said, an apparent reference to Iraqis working with the Americans.
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