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Iraq has arrested more than 60 security force members, including 11 senior officers over Sunday's twin suicide bombing in the capital Baghdad. Those arrested include the commanders of 15 checkpoints near to where the attacks took place. The attack in which more than 150 people were killed and 500 injured was the deadliest in Baghdad for two years.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2009 – Iraqi forces, with U.S. advisors, conducted a series of operations today resulting in the arrest of 11 suspects in vehicle-bomb networks operating between Baghdad and Mosul. Iraqi forces searched several buildings in western Baghdad for a suspect believed to be responsible for a truck bomb that struck government buildings in Baghdad and killed at least 150 people. The cell leader also is suspected of staging the deadly Aug. 19 attacks in the Iraqi capital. Based on evidence found in the buildings, Iraqi forces arrested eight people suspected of being linked to a bomb network in...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Two dozen children were among the 155 people killed after two truck bombs exploded in one of Baghdad's safest areas on Sunday. An official at the hospital where the children's bodies were brought says they were on a bus leaving a daycare center next to the Justice Ministry when the attack happened. The bus driver was also killed, and six kids injured.

From the air Sunday morning, this looked like a city restored. You could see paddle boats skimming the pond at Zawra Park, and go-karts and waterslides. And in every direction, new schools and soccer fields and bustling warehouses -- all taking shape under the canopy of the new Iraq. But down below, it turned out to be a morning from hell. Terrorists exploded two massive car bombs at the Justice Ministry and the Baghdad provincial administration, killing more than 100 and wounding more than 500... Around the time the bombers struck, I was flying over the city in a Black...

Federal investigators have questioned two men whose photographs were shown to a Muslim religious leader along with a picture of an Afghan immigrant accused of plotting a bomb attack in New York City. Adis Medunjanin, a Bosnian immigrant, met voluntarily with investigators for 14 hours, said Robert Gottlieb, a New York lawyer representing him. Zarein Ahmedzay, a 24-year-old New York City cab driver, also was interviewed by the FBI, said his brother, Nazir Ahmedzay. Both men's photos were among four shown to Ahmad Wais Afzali, an imam at a Queens mosque accused of tipping off Najibullah Zazi (nah-jee-BOO'-lah ZAH'-zee) that...

In 1999, Ian Wallace was elected king of Memorial High School's Winter Carnival and was named co-captain of the varsity hockey team. In 2003, he was named to the dean's list for his academic achievement as an anthropology student at the University of Minnesota. In between, he admitted to federal officials last year, Wallace attempted to firebomb two buildings at Michigan Technological University in an act of eco-terrorism. As a result, the former Memorial honor student and student council member is locked up in federal prison and not scheduled for release until Jan. 12, 2012. Ian J. Wallace, now 28,...

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces captured six suspects involved in terrorist acts conducted in and around Kirkuk, Mosul and Baghdad in four different security operations today. Near Tuz Khurmatu, located approximately 69 km southwest of Kirkuk, the 3rd Emergency Services Unit, with U.S. forces advisors, arrested a suspect involved in an assassination and kidnapping ring that operates in and around the city of Kirkuk. In addition, the suspect played an active role in helping build the vehicle-borne improvised explosive device that destroyed a mosque and killed several Iraqi citizens in Taza on June 20. The security team searched several buildings...

Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday. The real story is what's missing," said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney who obtained the recordings through the federal Freedom of Information Act as part of an unofficial inquiry he is conducting into the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds more.

The FBI has released long-secret security tapes that give new glimpses into the chaos during the minutes after the Oklahoma City bombing.

In his new book, "Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage," Best-selling celebrity journalist, Christopher Andersen, has blown a huge hole in the Obama genius myth without intending to do so. Relying on inside sources, quite possibly Michelle Obama herself, Andersen describes how Dreams came to be published -- just as I had envisioned it in my articles on the authorship of Dreams.  With the deadline pressing, Michelle recommended that Barack seek advice from "his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers." To flesh out his family history, Obama had taped interviews with various family members. Andersen writes, "These...

NAIROBI (Reuters) – The United Nations is investigating the use of its vehicles by suicide bombers who killed 17 African Union peacekeepers at their main base in Somalia, a senior official said on Saturday. The Somali government warned on Friday that Islamist rebels from the al Shabaab group had six more stolen U.N. cars primed with explosives ready for suicide attacks. "There are very large numbers of U.N. vehicles in Somalia that have been used for a variety of projects," Mark Bowden, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, told Reuters. He said the United Nations had been given the chassis...

Commando troops in Somalia on Sunday killed a Kenyan believed to be involved in a 2002 hotel bombing in Mombasa that claimed the lives of 15 people, including three Israelis, according to multiple accounts from Somalia. Nabhan is believed to have owned the truck used in the bombing. Nabhan, who was also wanted over a botched missile attack on an Israeli airliner taking off from Kenya's Mombasa airport, was killed after a missile struck his car in Somalia's Barawe District, 250 kilometers south of the capital Mogadishu. Witnesses said the missile was launched from a helicopter. ABC News reported the...

The Libyan killer of a British policewoman will never be brought to justice in Britain after a secret deal approved by Jack Straw. The Foreign Office bowed to Libyan pressure and agreed that Britain would abandon any attempt to try the murderer of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, shot outside the Libyan embassy in London 25 years ago. Anthony Layden, Britain’s former ambassador to Libya, said this weekend he had signed the agreement with the Libyan government three years ago, when Straw was foreign secretary. At the time Britain was negotiating trade deals worth hundreds of millions of pounds with Libya. The...

Civilian causalities from NATO bombings in Afghanistan represent: Deliberate war crimes Inadvertent but avoidable An inevitable byproduct of a just war Overblown Click on "English" - upper left - scroll down a bit - on the right.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday described information he received from the Iraqi government on the crisis with Syria as convincing, noting that he will transfer it to Damascus. At a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart, Hoshyar Zebari in Baghdad, the minister called on the two sides to exchange information on the current crisis without revealing them. The minister said that he discussed with President Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Vice President Adel Abdulmahdi the latest developments between Iraq and Syria. “We understood the Iraqi stance and its persuasive information and I will carry them...

A federal search warrant obtained by the Post-Dispatch connects a former Democratic campaign strategist to a Clayton bombing last year that seriously injured an attorney. About two months after the October bombing, federal law enforcement officials searched the downtown loft of Milton H. "Skip" Ohlsen III, seeking "evidence related to the planning, execution, and/or cover-up of the bombing in Clayton, Missouri, on October 16, 2008." Ohlsen in recent weeks has been at the center of a swirling political scandal that is threatening the political careers of at least two Missouri Democratic legislators. The Clayton bombing injured attorney John L. Gillis...

CAIRO, Aug. 24 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Twenty people were killed and 10 wounded as bombs planted on two buses exploded in the southern Iraqi town of Kut on Monday, news media reported.

BAGHDAD (AP) - The suicide bombers who blew up explosives-laden trucks outside government buildings in Baghdad may have been aided by members of Iraq's security forces, the foreign minister said Saturday, even as the government insisted Iraqi forces could still protect the nation. Anger is mounting over the security lapses that allowed the bombers to drive trucks past checkpoints and position them close to government targets that included the foreign and finance ministries. Wednesday's attacks killed at least 101 people and wounded more than 500. The violence has shaken confidence in a government eager to demonstrate that it can take...

A final decision on whether the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing will be allowed to return to Libya is expected early next week, but the United States today warned that it would be against such a move. The Scottish justice secretary, Kenny MacAskill, however, is thought to have decided in principle to send Abdelbasset al-Megrahi, who was convicted in 2001 of killing 270 people in the bomb attack on Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland in December 1988, back to Libya. MacAskill is expected to get a final report from his officials by Monday on whether to set Megrahi...

KABUL, Aug. 13, 2009 – Afghan soldiers, aided by NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, captured suspected Taliban fighters Aug. 11 in the Sayed Abad district of eastern Afghanistan’s Wardak province. Based on a local resident’s tip, Task Force Spartan, under the lead of Afghan soldiers, searched a location in the Tangi Valley. The force captured two suspected insurgents known for bomb-making production, and two alleged accomplices. The two insurgents are suspected of being involved in several homemade bomb attacks on Afghan and ISAF troops, including multiple attacks in Wardak province’s Sayed Abad district in June. The joint force also found...

A bomb targeting Afghan police exploded in the heart of Afghanistan's western city of Herat on Monday, killing 12 people and wounding another 20 during rush hour, police said. The attack heightens concerns that the country's Taliban-led insurgency is spiking less than three weeks before landmark presidential and provincial council elections on August 20. Provincial police chief Esmatullah Alizai told reporters that the blast was caused by a bomb planted in a roadside rubbish bin. "It exploded as the convoy of district police passed by," he said. "Twelve people have been killed in this explosion and 20 other people have...

A series of bombings outside mosques in the Iraqi capital Baghdad have killed at least 29 people, Iraqi police sources say. More than 130 people were injured when the six apparently co-ordinated bombs struck five Shia mosques. Worshippers were leaving the mosques after Friday prayers at the time. The number of those killed and injured is still rising but it is already clear that this is one of the deadliest attacks in recent weeks.

Police have closed all airport and seaports on Spain's Majorca island to prevent the "terrorists" responsible for a bombing which killed two civil guards from escaping, the government said. Two civil guard officers were killed when their booby-trapped car exploded near a barracks on the island, local police said a day after a bomb in northern Spain injured dozens. "Two civil guard officers who were in an official vehicle were killed in an explosion," a spokeswoman for the civil guards said. "This means that departures from the port, airport and marinas in Majorca are closed for departures," the representative of...

Jakarta bombers may have been guests at Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, police say Michel Maas in Jakarta and Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor Suicide bombers posing as hotel guests are believed to have been responsible for the explosions in two hotels that killed at least eight people in Jakarta yesterday and wounded more than 50, in the first such attack in Indonesia for almost four years. Bleeding victims, some of them foreign businessmen who, moments earlier, had been engaged in breakfast meetings, limped or crawled out of the JW Marriott hotel and the neighbouring Ritz-Carlton in Jakarta’s Mega Kuningan business...

6/25/2009 - KIRKUK AIR BASE, Iraq (AFNS) -- The bright pink soccer ball was clearly out of place on the flightline here June 22; however, it was in just the right place to begin the healing process for a 9-year-old girl atop a stretcher being carried on board a Turkish air force C-130 to be aeromedically evacuated to Ankara, Turkey. She was the first of the 11 litter patients in all who were moved from ambulances up the ramp into the cargo aircraft. Overall, U.S. and Turkish airmen, U.S. State Department officials at the Kirkuk Provincial Reconstruction Team, and Turkish...

WARDAK PROVINCE, Afghanistan, June 17, 2009 – With at least 10 improvised explosive devices found and detonated in recent weeks on a key route leaders prepared to travel along on June 13, soldiers in Afghanistan’s Wardak province set up a traffic checkpoint. Army Sgt. Bill Hunter and his interpreter speak with an Afghan couple while their vehicle is being searched by soldiers at a traffic checkpoint in Afghanistan’s Wardak province, June 13, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Rob Frazier  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The counter-IED team of 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, led soldiers from Battery...

BAGHDAD — A rare car bomb near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya killed at least 28 people at an outdoor market, provoking a near riot among survivors who began stoning the police, blaming them for lax security. Police officers in Al Batha, a town about 25 miles west of Nasiriya, dispersed the angry crowd by firing randomly, wounding at least one protester, witnesses said. The governor of Dhi Qar Province, where the bombing occurred, immediately dismissed Al Batha’s chief of police, Lt. Col. Assad Hussein, for negligence, according to Abdul Husain Shenawa, director of the province’s media office. There...

On June 9, Islamic extremist identified as The Taliban attacked the Pearl Continental Hotel, which is popular with foreigners, in the Pakistani city of Peshawar with guns and a truck bomb killing eleven people including a U.N. worker, authorities say. [Was this the Islamic response to Obama's June 4th, A Message of New Beginnings to the Muslim World?]

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran on Saturday hanged three men in public accused of involvement in the bombing of a Shiite mosque that killed 25 people, an official said, branding them "terrorists" and "enemies of God." The early morning executions took place near the mosque in southeastern Iran devastated by the bombing, official IRNA news agency quoted Hojatoeslam Ebrahim Hamidi, justice chief of Sistan-Baluchestan province, as saying. At least 125 people were also wounded in the powerful blast, which rocked the Amir al-Momenin mosque in the Sistan-Baluchestan provincial capital Zahedan during evening prayers on Thursday. "The terrorists Haji Noti Zehi, Gholam...

A blast at a Shiite mosque in the southeastern city of Zahedan, near the border with Pakistan, killed 15 people and wounded more than 55 on Thursday evening, the news agency ISNA reported. The bomb went off at 7:45 p.m. at Ali-ibn-Abitaleb, the second largest Shiite mosque in the city. ISNA said the bomb had been hidden in a bag in the men’s section of the mosque.

LAHORE, Pakistan – Suspected suicide attackers detonated an explosives-filled van Wednesday that destroyed a police building and sheared walls off a nearby office of Pakistan's top intelligence service in the eastern city Lahore. About 30 people were killed and at least 250 wounded. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the attack — one of the deadliest in Pakistan this year — could be retaliation for the government's military offensive to rout Taliban militants from the northwestern Swat Valley. Recent assaults in Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city sited near the Indian border, have heightened fears that militancy in nuclear-armed Pakistan is spreading well...

Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Gerald D. Pennington, Chief of Police for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF) announced today that a reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information leading to the identification and arrest of the person or persons responsible for the bombing of a BNSF switching shed, earlier this week. The blast took place during the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 12th, inside a concrete bungalow building near Sugar Grove, Illinois. The building contained electronic components that controlled rail switches for the...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Bombs destroyed an Internet cafe, wrecked a bus carrying handicapped children and spread panic through Pakistan's main northwestern city on Saturday, killing at least 11 people in a day of carnage across the militancy-plagued region. An apparent U.S. missile strike annihilated a Taliban raiding party mustering to cross into Afghanistan, officials said, while Pakistani troops claimed another 47 kills in their bid to retake the Swat Valley. Violence is engulfing Pakistani territory along the Afghan border as American and allied forces crank up the pressure on al-Qaida and Taliban militants entrenched in the forbidding and barely governed...

The former FBI informant who said he can tie 1960s radical William Ayers to the bombing of a police station in The City will reportedly be interviewed today by San Francisco police. Park Police Station was bombed Feb. 16, 1970, killing Sgt. Brian McDonnell and injuring eight other officers. Larry Grathwohl, who infiltrated the radical group Weather Underground and later testified in front of the U.S. Senate and several grand juries, said a San Francisco police inspector asked to interview him while he’s in town. Grathwohl has been involved in federal probes into the bombing, but has never been interviewed...

In Memoriam 24 March 1999 - 24 March 2009 Ten years ago, NATO commenced the 78-day illegal bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), which was done without the approval of the UN. In the operation, code-named "Merciful Angel", there were 1002 Yugoslav Army soldiers and Serbian police killed; 2500 civilians including 89 children; while 12,500 people were wounded/injured. The estimated damage to property, including factories, schools, bridges, hospitals, roads, railways, etc. is estimated at about 30 billion US dollars. No Western politician or general has been held accountable for the brutal murder of a country,...

The forces of NATO opened an assault on Serbia with cruise missiles and bombs today as President Clinton denounced the Yugoslav President, Slobodan Milosevic, for feeding the ''flames of ethnic and religious division'' in Kosovo and endangering neighboring countries. The missiles began striking Serbian targets within minutes of Mr. Clinton's midday announcement that the long-threatened attack was under way. It was expected to be a broad, sustained barrage intended to stun the Yugoslav leader and punish the military for its yearlong onslaught against the ethnic Albanian separatists of Kosovo. ''Ending this tragedy is a moral imperative,'' Mr. Clinton declared in...

BELGRADE: Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci says that the air strikes on Yugoslavia 10 years ago were “a great historic event for Kosovo.” Thaci thanked the countries that had backed Kosovo on its path to independence. “The successful culmination of the NATO campaign opened a new chapter in Kosovo’s recent history. A chapter of liberty and the construction of real democracy,” he said in a statement to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the start of the NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia, which claimed the lives of around 2,500 civilians, including 88 children. The prime minister said that the Kosovo...

Note: 10 years ago today... ___________________________ NATO today authorized air strikes against Serbia as President Clinton declared that force was necessary to halt the aggression by Serbs against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. The air campaign, using primarily American aircraft and cruise missiles, is poised to begin over southern Serbia and targets in Kosovo under cover of night Wednesday, NATO officials said. In his first full explanation of why the Administration had decided NATO should strike, Mr. Clinton said in a speech to a union group here today, ''If President Milosevic is not willing to make peace, we are willing to...

BELGRADE -- Today is the tenth anniversary of the NATO air strikes on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). The scenes 10 years ago (FoNet, archive) At midday, air raid sirens sounded throughout the country in a mark of remembrance for the victims. The government, which has decided to build a memorial center dedicated to the victims of the air strikes, called on all citizens to stop whatever they were doing and respect the minute’s silence for the victims. Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković said that the air strikes had been an illegal act that could have been avoided. "Could the...

Today Serbia is marking the 10th anniversary since beginning of the NATO air strikes. All schools in the country shall begin their classes with a minute of silence for the people who lost their lives. The Parliament shall not work, meetings shall be held across the whole of Serbia, while officials shall lay wreaths on the monuments to the dead. Addressing the UN Security Council at the session dedicated to Kosovo, Serbia President Boris Tadic said that ten years ago the Serbs had been punished with bombs and Kosovo Albanians five years ago in spite of expelling Serbs and...

Note from Ravnagora: As the 10 year anniversary of the NATO bombing of Serbia is upon us this week, it's important to revisit events in light of the present day realities in Kosovo. The following story was issued just the day before the 1999 bombing of Serbia by NATO commenced. ________________ Clinton: Serbs must be stopped now U.S. on verge of attack; divided Senate to unify on Kosovo mission WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Accusing Serbia of "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo similar to the genocide of Jews in World War II, an impassioned President Clinton sought Tuesday to rally public support for...

Bomb lobbed at police station in China's west By Audra Ang, Associated Press Writer 2 hrs 10 mins ago BEIJING – A bomb blast in an unoccupied police station in a Tibetan area in western China has added to tensions during a sensitive month marking the anniversaries of violent anti-government uprisings and the Dalai Lama's exile to India. The explosion shattered windows at the newly built station in Bogexi, a town in the predominantly Tibetan Ganzi prefecture, police official Liu Xiaojun said Tuesday. The building was not yet occupied at the time of the blast early Monday and an investigation...

Yemen blames Al-Qaeda for bombing of S.Koreans by Hamoud Mounasser Mon Mar 16, 10:17 am ET SANAA (AFP) – Yemeni state media blamed Al-Qaeda on Monday for a suicide bombing that killed four South Korean holidaymakers and their local guide in the historic eastern tourism city of Shibam. An 18-year-old who had been "tricked by Al-Qaeda into wearing an explosives vest" carried out the attack in the ancestral homeland of the militant network's fugitive leader Osama bin Laden, the official Saba news agency said. On a visit to the city of Shibam in the eastern Hadramawt region, Vice President Abed...

At least 10 people injured in grenade blast in Bangladesh Xinhua - ‎Feb 20, 2009‎JMB has been campaigning for introduction of Islamic rule in Bangladesh. They were responsible for conducting simultaneous bomb blasts in 63 district ...http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/20/content_10858918.htm   4 suspected Islamic militants held in Bangladesh eTaiwan Newshttp://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=872543&lang=eng_news   Handcuffed militant blasts grenade at media meethttp://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200902211051.htm   Bangladesh on Trial Global Politician - ‎Feb 22, 2009‎"When Mr. Choudhury was arrested five years ago, the party in power in Dhaka was supported by radical Islamists who view Mr. Choudhury's journalism as an ...http://globalpolitician.com/25452-bangladesh   Our Hero Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury attacked again:...

This from a Jewish research organization that sends me emails on their work: "A woman suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame." The woman is Iraqi and, it goes without saying, Muslim. I don’t think I need to add anything, except to say that I will be writing about the philosophy of religion later, from a cat’s point of view; and this most certainly underlines my assertion that not all “God hypotheses” are created equal.

The World Trade Center was first attacked sixteen years ago today, February 26, 1993. Along with more than 1,000 people injured, these six people were murdered during that bombing by radical Islamists: John DiGiovanni, age 45, Kerr Manufacturing Company; Dental Supply salesman. Visitor to the World Trade Center. Robert Kirkpatrick, age 61, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; Senior Structural Maintenance Supervisor for the World Trade Center. Stephen Knapp, age 47, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; Chief Mechanical Supervisor for the World Trade Center. William Macko, age 57, Port Authority of New York and New...

Report: Cafe bomber confesses to bus bombing Yesterday ~ Chris ~ Link ~ Comments (13) According to Chinese media reports, Kunming police have stated that the man involved in yesterday's bombing at Salvador's Coffee House confessed to involvement in the unsolved July bus bombings shortly before dying. Kunming police told the Yunnan Info Daily that yesterday's blast was not due to a natural gas canister explosion - as had been reported earlier by some Chinese media - but rather ammonium nitrate, the same compound which was reportedly used in the bus bombings this summer. Police said the ammonium nitrate had...

SALEM -- Bruce Turnidge was arraigned this morning on multiple murder charges for his alleged involvement in last week's Woodburn bank bombing that killed two police officers and seriously wounded a third. Turnidge and his 32-year-old son, Joshua, both face aggravated murder charges, which could bring the death penalty. Bruce Turnidge wore a blue sleeveless "suicide smock" in his brief appearance before Judge Joseph V. Ochoa at the Marion County Court Annex in southeast Salem, where earlier that morning sheriff's deputies patrolled, searching for anything suspicious in bushes outside the building. Inside the courtroom, Turnidge, 57, listened silently, eyes sometimes...

Stephanie Yao/The OregonianJoshua Turnidge, left, appears with his attorney Steven L. Krasik for arraignment in Salem today. Turnidge, 32, was held on multiple charges, including murder, in a bombing last Friday at a West Coast Bank branch in Woodburn that killed two law enforcement officers and critically injured a third. SALEM -- Authorities mistakenly believed the bomb that detonated at the Woodburn West Coast Bank on Friday was a hoax device that could be moved and taken apart inside the bank, according to the probable cause statement against Joshua Abraham Turnidge, arraigned today on aggravated murder charges. Instead, the...

U.S. EMBASSY BAGHDAD — The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and Multi-National Force – Iraq strongly condemn the terrorist suicide bombing in Kirkuk yesterday that resulted in the loss of innocent civilian lives. We extend our sincere condolences to the families of the victims and to their communities. The perpetrators of this horrific attack continue to target all Iraqi citizens, regardless of religion or community. Al-Qaeda in Iraq seeks to divide Iraqi communities and halt the progress Iraqis are making in building a stable, inclusive and tolerant society. We stand ready to work with the government and the people of Iraq...