23/02/2012 18:35
Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama Najafi
"Gate of Iraq" BAGHDAD - House Speaker accused Osama Najafi, Thursday, unnamed third parties of being behind the bombings in the country today, stressing that the bombings were meant to thwart the public and the National Congress of the Arab summit to be held in Baghdad, the end of next March.
Osama al-Najafi said in a statement issued by his office, today, that "the criminal bombings and acts of violence, which affected the Iraqi civilians, today, aimed at raising the fire of sedition among the Iraqi people", accusing outsiders did not identify the "stand behind the bombings by trying to export to its internal problems of Iraq. "
Najafi added that "these bombings were meant to derail the Arab Summit in Baghdad and the National Conference-General", calling on the security agencies to "take responsible action to reduce these terrorist acts."
A series of bombings this morning, Baghdad and six other provinces are the Salah al-Din, Babylon, Nineveh, Diyala and Anbar and Kirkuk, killed nearly 400 people dead and injured, as was considered for the Commission on Security and Defence parliamentary those bombings indicator of risk and evidence of the lack of readiness of the Iraqi armed forces.
As recognized by the Interior Ministry said in a statement issued today, the occurrence of 22 bombings targeted 19 regions across Iraq.
While stressing the Sadrist movement led by Muqtada al-Sadr, the need to review the work of the system intelligence security against the backdrop of bombings today, and called to make changes to a deliberate and professional in terms of plans and security leaders, while calling politicians to resolve their differences and to go to achieve security and stand up to schemes Baath takfiri.
And called the Iraqi List led by Iyad Allawi's government to resign in the event were not able to bear the responsibility in maintaining security, considering that the series of bombings that hit six provinces on Thursday, clearly reflect failures in controlling the security file and provide the appropriate political atmosphere.
It is noteworthy that this escalation continued security since the beginning of the new year 2012 coincides with the survival of the security ministries vacant and the political crisis in the country, following the issuance of an arrest warrant against the vice president the leader of the Iraqi List, Tariq al-Hashimi, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a request to parliament to withdraw confidence from the Vice President leader of the Iraqi List, Saleh al-Mutlaq also, along with many of the issues that are the subject of disagreement between the political blocs.
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