Encouraging the terrorists is a dangerous game

Faleh Al Saadi – Iraq

01.12.2006

Almost every week we hear from an American or an European official or media institution a release or a statement which gives the terrorists the feeling, that they succeed in what they do.
Recently a CIA survey was published saying that terrorism is stronger than ever before.

But is this true ?
Despite all the terrible attacks on innocent civilians in Iraq the terrorists could not bring down the Iraqi state or its elected government. Since the attacks in London on 7.July 2005 and Madrid on 11.March 2004 AlQaeda didn’t manage to commit another suicide bombing outside the Muslim world.

It becomes obvious , that the statement of the CIA survey is not true.
If it is not true, why was it published ?

The answer is simple: The senate election in the USA this November.
To increase the chances, democrats have to point out, that the republicans and especially Bush have lost the war on terror.
This is dangerous, because Iraqi people and American soldiers are paying the tribute for this game with their lives. Messages like these tell the terrorists that they are succeeding in the war against the US and the Iraqi people. This encourage them to carry out more and more attacks.

We have to stop accuse each other of failure.
We might not share the same opinion, but we share the same goal, to fight and beat terrorism.

How can I as an Iraqi convince other people to fight against terrorism, if some British or American officers tells newspapers and TV channels, that they are not sure of the victory?

We Iraqis want to undertake every thing to defeat the terrorists and chase them out of Iraq. To achieve this goal we need the help of all countries, which are interested in defeating terrorism.
Now we have a constitution and a parliament that has been chosen by the Iraqi people. All ethnic and religious groups are represented in it. The so called resistance is also represented in this Parliament through the Sunni parties. The existence of this parliament alone is something to be proud of, and something we have to defend by all means.

The indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians itself is significant for the weakness, not for the strength of those terrorists.

The war against terrorism in Middle East will be decided in Iraq.

We must work together against terrorism in Iraq und elsewhere.

The only choice we have is the victory.