Many suicide bombers have been dispatched from its narrow, winding lanes, and the Israeli army frequently raids the refugee camp, looking for militant leaders. Israeli soldiers found him hiding under a car in a pre-dawn raid. Islamic Jihad immediately threatened to avenge his capture, and there will be fears of a new militant attack.Jenin refugee camp, where the Israeli army reduced an entire neighbourhood of more than 100 houses to rubble last year, has long been one of the main centres of Palestinian militancy. They are calling on John Ashcroft, the Attorney General, to name an outside prosecutor But Republicans rejected these demands..

Israeli soldiers captured a local leader of the Islamic Jihad militant group in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank yesterday. The President’s spokes-man also said that the White House would agree to polygraph tests for staffers, if the FBI requested them.Mr Bush has promised to co-operate fully with the inquiry, but Democrats said that Justice Department officials could not conduct an impartial investigation. But President George Bush’s spokesman said he knew of no one who had gone to the department with information on the case.He also said that, to the best of his knowledge, no White House officials had hired outside legal help – a routine procedure during Bill Clinton’s time at the White House between 1992 and 2000, which was beset by scandals. Mr Kay will probably say that these instructions, intercepted by US intelligence services, were fakes, intended by Saddam to make himself appear a greater threat that he was.Officially, his report will be “inconclusive” and stress Saddam’s skill at hiding his prohibited weapons. The Bush administration is bracing itself for the publication of a report today that will confirm the failure to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – the main justification given for the war.
David Kay, head of the Iraq Survey group which is leading the hunt for the weapons, is expected to tell the House and Senate Intelligence committees that Saddam Hussein may have been bluffing over whether he possessed chemical and biological arms.Mr Kay is likely to highlight the instructions issued by Baghdad to Iraqi commanders in the field shortly before war, to use chemical weapons against the invaders. One was shot dead and another was injured while patrolling the suburb of Mansour in Baghdad. Earlier, a female soldier was killed and three others wounded when a bomb exploded near a US military base in Tikrit..

We have come every week, but still we get no answer,” he said. Yassin Khudier, claimed he paid $100 to the driver of the chief of the Facilities Protection Force to get a job. “I want my money back,” he said.The chief of the east Baghdad police, Brigadier Khadum Abide, spoke to the demonstrators and said appointments would be announced on television in three days.* Two American soldiers were killed yesterday in separate attacks. We think this is a democracy and they can express their point of view. But then they started firing.”Ali Aboud, a 52-year-old unemployed builder, said police had asked him to pay $100 for a job, a sum that was out of the question “They promised us they would give us jobs in July.

They are all corrupt, from officers to ordinary policemen.”One policeman, Falah Hassan, said: “We didn’t shoot at the beginning. Ali Hamid, 21, said he and other members of the crowd had paid to get their names on a list, but complained: “All these policemen are corrupt. We gave them money to register our names as candidates and when we returned they said we have no business being here. They claimed police were demanding bribes in return for hiring them. There was no information on casualties, but several protesters were reportedly wounded. Police said they had been hit by stones and assaulted by the crowd.Protesters said they were promised police jobs in July, but had not got them. When the gunfire stopped, fights broke out between demonstrators and police, despite the arrival of American troops.