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Iraq mustn't be cowed by bombings PDF Print E-mail

The Guardian Ranj Alaaldin 10/12/2009

At least 110 people were killed and hundreds more injured yesterday when five near-simultaneous bombs struck Baghdad. In typical fashion for a country of painful ironies, yesterday's attacks came in the aftermath of the Iraqi parliament's passing of a long-debated election law. With elections set to take place in March, few should have been surprised that Sunni extremists struck once again in an attempt to hurt the country's Shia-dominated government.

What is significant is that Arab Iraq's security problem reflects its political problems and also the geopolitical realities. There is, among Iraq's neighbours, no enthusiasm for a stable and democratic Iraq – Iraq still remains at the mercy of the intentions of its neighbours, who continue to be complicit in facilitating attacks in the country. Iraq, one could say, has become a contaminated cocktail of regional neighbours' ideological and geo-strategic aspirations; a battleground between the Sunni Arab world and Shia Iran. The equivalence of a turf war between the country's political and ethno-sectarian groups does not help.

Political reconciliation at the top, and resolution of outstanding territorial and constitutional disputes can help to remedy all this but only when Iraqi politics truly starts to cross ethnic and sectarian boundaries.

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