Tuesday, 8th December 2009
Struan Stevenson condems Iraq bombings
Comment from Struan Stevenson MEP reacting to this morning’s bombing in Baghdad:
“The latest bomb outrage in Baghdad which has claimed the lives of at least 127 people and injured scores of others is a sign of a rapidly deteriorating security position in Iraq.
“The two car bombs that were detonated in a high security area near the Labour and Interior Ministries and other explosions which occurred in central Baghdad and in the south of the city, were clearly designed to sow confusion and terror ahead of the Iraqi General Election in February.
“Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has got to get a grip of the situation in Iraq. He must radically reform the Iraqi police and security forces who have been heavily infiltrated by insurgents, many of whom take their orders from Tehran, rather than Baghdad.
“The massacre of so many innocent people is deplorable, but it should not deter those who seek to build a new democratic Iraq, free from sectarian violence and bloodshed. Those who plan bloody mayhem and seek to kill and injure innocent men, women and children, must never be allowed to prevail.”
STRUAN STEVENSON, MEP
President of the European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Iraq.
