Salvadorans to face "hell" if new troops sent to Iraq: Islamist group

[Barrett808]

DUBAI (AFP) - The fate of Salvadoran troops in Iraq will be "hell" if their government goes ahead with plans to send fresh troops to the embattled country, a shadowy militant group warned on an Islamist website.

"If you send troops to Iraq, we will not be merciful and will we not refrain from responding. Your fate will be hell like what happened to Spain and other countries," said Jamaa al-Tawhid al-Islamiya, or Islamic Unification Group.

"We advise the people of El Salvador not to send their sons to Iraq as we only understand the language of car bomb blasts and blood," the group said in a statement.

"Therefore, government and people of El Salvador, come back to your senses and do not follow the Americans and their allies," it said.

The group said the statement was a warning to El Salvador, Australia, Denmark, Italy and other countries with troops deployed in Iraq to pull out their forces.

The authenticity of the statement could not be verified.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Bush should stop leaning on poor, small, helpless countries

which need the U.S. to refrain from abusing them. _Bush shouldn't intimidate them into sending young people who have absolutely NOTHING to gain from giving their lives for a country which breathes down the necks of their leaders and demands lives as tribute.