PHNOM PENH, April 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk predicted a disastrous end to the efforts of US and coalition forces in Iraq, The Cambodia Daily reported Monday.

    Comparing the current situation in Iraq to Vietnam and Cambodia' s own bloody history, the King wrote in a message in French posted on his web site Sunday that "Vietnam and then Cambodia haveknown that fate. And the 'occupying' foreigner always ends up by 'going home'."

    The monarch cast doubt over the United States's plan to return sovereignty to the Iraqi people, saying the Iraqis believe a US-backed government would not represent them in any way.

    "There is and there will be until the end in Iraq a resistance more and more violent, more and more determined ...more and more terrible, more and more tragic in terms of human lives on all sides," the King said.

    The King's message comes amid weeks of intense fighting and violence in Iraq. Enditem