"We will ensure that every Iraqi is intimately familiar with (Zarqawi's) blueprint for terror ... and his efforts to tear this country apart and turn it into an ethnic blood bath," Senor said.
The US military on Wednesday doubled its reward to 10 million dollars for information leading to Zarqawi's capture.
In the memo, Zarqawi "clearly calls for unleashing civil war" between Iraq's majority Shiite community and the unseated Sunni political and military elite which backed Saddam, Senor said.
Meanwhile Thursday, in the southern Shiite holy city of Najaf, a top UN official probing the feasibility of early elections agreed with Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani that polls should be held, but added that they must be well-prepared and held at the appropriate time.
Lakhdar Brahimi said he had met for two hours with Sistani at his home in Najaf.
Lakhdar's position appeared mid-way between that of Sistani, who wants direct elections before a June 30 transfer of power to an Iraqi authority, and the US-led coalition, which argues that free and fair elections cannot be held in such a short period but need preparation.
In Washington, US President George W. Bush named the final two members of the nine-person commission looking into flawed pre-war intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
Bush tapped the outgoing president of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles Vest, and Henry Rowen, professor emeritus at Stanford University Business School, the White House said in a statement.
The panel is to submit its report by March 31, 2005 -- well after the November presidential election.
In London, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said the Atlantic alliance was willing to assist security efforts in Iraq, but that nothing could happen until the country becomes self-governing.
"Priority number one at the moment is Afghanistan," where NATO troops are already deployed, Scheffer told a press conference.
"What kind of role NATO can play and will play in Iraq is very much dependent on political developments there," he said after meeting with British Foreign Minister Jack Straw and Defence Minister Geoff Hoon.
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