Reports are emerging from Iraq of home-grown insurgents becoming increasingly unhappy with the involvement in their country of foreign Islamic militants. Recent incidents apparently highlight the increasingly strained relationship between the two.
Iraqis are concerned that the nationalist rebellion against the occupying Allied forces is being hijacked by militants such as Osama Bin Laden, who they suspect is attempting to make Iraq the front line in his war against the US.
Each side has recently tried to claim credit for attacks, such as the recent mess tent suicide bomb in Mosul. The fleeing of notorious Jordanian terrorist al-Zarqawi from Fallujah rather than defending it with the Iraqis, is said to be further proof.
