Two previously unknown Iraqi groups have warned countries against sending troops to Iraq, Arab television channels say.
"We strongly reject and will resist with weapons any military intervention under the umbrella of the United Nations, the Security Council, NATO, or Islamic and Arab countries," a group calling itself the Iraq Liberation Army said in a statement shown on the Dubai-based al-Arabiya television today.
Qatar-based al-Jazeera television also showed a statement from another Iraqi group - the Iraqi National Islamic Resistance: 1920 Revolution Brigades, in reference to Iraq's history fighting British colonial rule - warning against further foreign intervention.
"It implored Arab and Islamic countries about the seriousness of sending their troops to Iraq," al-Jazeera quoted the statement as saying.
Troops from Spain, Poland, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, the Baltic states - and possibly from the Philippines, Thailand, Mongolia and Fiji - are likely to be part of the peacekeeping forces in Iraq.
Bangladesh and Pakistan, both Muslim nations, have also been asked to take part in peacekeeping operations, but there is considerable domestic opposition to the proposals.
Thirty-two US soldiers have been killed in guerrilla attacks in Iraq since President George W. Bush declared major combat over on May 1st.
A group claiming to be an Iraqi branch of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network claimed responsibility for attacks on US soldiers in an audio tape broadcast on al-Arabiya on Sunday, but its rhetoric sounded more typical of Saddam Hussein supporters than Islamic militants.