"Jordan holds the United States and Britain, and any other country engaged in the war on Iraq, responsible for the protection of innocent civilians ... and condemns the killings and destructions resulting from Iraq's invasion," Abu Ragheb told Ambassador Edward Gnehm, officials said.

Jordan's King Abdullah II on Wednesday described for the first time US-British attacks on neighbouring Iraq as an "invasion" and expressed his anguish over civilian war casualties, calling them "martyrs".

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