AS SAYLIYA CAMP (Qatar), April 13: US Gen Tommy Franks, the US officer in charge of the war in Iraq, said on Sunday military action would not end until pockets of Iraqi resistance were under control.

“We know that there are pockets of, I’ve heard them referred to as everything from paramilitary to death squad to Fedayeen Saddam, we know that there are pockets of that,” Franks told CNN in an interview monitored at war headquarters in Qatar.

“We also know that there are pockets of foreigners in Iraq who had decided to fight to their last breath,” he said. “And until we have a sense that we have all of that under control then we will probably not characterise the initial military phase as having been completed and the regime totally gone.”—Reuters