On the Third Hand…

The “Iraqi Insurance State Company” (owned by the government) issued insurance documents for accidents, killing, terrorist attacks…etc.

About 5 Churches have been targeted by different ways by the groups of the beheadings and kidnappings of Al-Zarqawi and his supporters among the Wahabis.

On the same time the same groups attacked by rockets Ibn Al-Baytar Hospital in Baghdad!

Today’s attacks are nothing but indicate the failure of the terrorists and their dirty attitudes.

What is needed is not just simple police but a kind of rapid intervention groups able to deal with kidnappers and terrorists on the spot; also permanent security presence and grip in residential areas both in urban as well as provincial regions; easier said than done, admittedly though.

Iraqis today, more than ever, are in terrible need for secular voices to face the rising fanaticism in Iraqi society. Most Iraqis have turned to religious parties and demagogic groups due to the lack of organised alternatives. Mosques and Husseiniyas provide charity for the impoverished, militias provide jobs for the unemployed and promise paradise if they take over the country. They keep repeating the mantra “Islam is the solution” and point out former Iraqi governments as an indication of the failure of secularism.