Monday, 12th October 2009
Iraqi bomb outrage condemned
The President of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Iraq, Struan Stevenson, has condemned the three explosions that today rocked the Iraqi city of Ramadi, in Anbar Province, west of Baghdad, killing an estimated 22 people and wounding 61. Struan Stevenson, Conservative Euro MP for Scotland, said that he expressed his sincere condolences to the families of the victims and called for the Iraqi authorities to mount a full inquiry into the terrorist attack, asking the Iraqi parliament and government to investigate who was behind the crime.
Speaking in Scotland, Struan Stevenson said:
“The brutality of this latest bomb outrage is appalling. The terrorists deliberately rammed the police headquarters with a car packed with explosives and then detonated a second bomb amongst the crowd who had gathered at the scene. A third bomb was set off outside the main hospital in Ramadi. Clearly the terrorists were trying to cause the maximum carnage, similar to the bombings on 19 August in Iraq which left over 100 killed and hundreds wounded. There were many reports that the Iranian regime was behind the 19 August explosions and are behind many such crimes in Iraq, in an effort to de-stabilise the country and in order to expand Tehran’s dominance in the region.
“This attack is particularly worrying as Anbar has been relatively stable since Sunni fighters turned against al-Qaeda and joined forces with the US and Iraqi security forces.”
