That may help widen a rift in the insurgency between Iraqi nationalists and foreign fighters.

"They are Iraqi nationalists, and now that they're in power, they're less dependent on external support than they were as exiled opposition groups," he said.

Pressure from Arab nationalists and Iraqi nationalists demanded that the British leave Iraq, but their demands were ignored by the United Kingdom.

Iraqi nationalists, Iraqis who believe in a strong version of Iraqi self-determination.

Iraqi nationalists are mostly drawn from the Arab regions.

Only an American withdrawal, combined with an international conference, can free Iraqi nationalists of all sects to unite the country, he said.

In 1941, Iraqi nationalists murdered 200 Jews in Baghdad in a pogrom.

He said that the bulk of the opposition to U.S. forces continues to be Saddam loyalists and Iraqi nationalists.

Israeli government has always denied any link to Baghdad bombings, and blaimed Iraqi nationalists for the attacks on the Iraqi Jews.