DUBAI (AFP) ??” An armed assemblage calling itself the "Salvation Movement" threatened in a video to kill Al-Qaeda-linked Jordanian operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi if he did not leave Iraq.

DUBAI (AFP) ??” An armed assemblage calling itself the "Salvation Movement" threatened in a video to kill Al-Qaeda-linked Jordanian operative Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi if he did not leave Iraq.

"The apostate, criminal Zarqawi and his henchmen must leave Iraq immediately," said a statement read through one of the group onward the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite moderns channel.

"Islam has nothing to do with this criminal," the statement said Tuesday, referring to attacks attributed to the Sunni Muslim Zarqawi, particularly in Shiite-populated towns.

"We have started work and preparations to capture him and his followers or kill them and propose them ...