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Iraq�s car bombers � who are they?



By Akram Abdulrazzaq



Azzaman, February 7, 2007



In the nearly four years since the U.S. invasion, cheap and mad death tread freely in Iraqi cities and towns. There have been car bombs and explosions every day and the death is in the hundreds of thousands.



It is estimated that some 5,000 car bombs have so far been used in these explosions along with hundreds of tons of explosives.



All this happens and we are under the custody of the world�s mightiest military power which still has to boost its troops in order to pacify Baghdad which it occupied four years ago.



The violence whether the result of explosives, car bombs, insurgents, criminals, ongoing U.S. military operations, or murderous militias is taking place under the nose of U.S. and Iraqi security forces.



The explosions happening in Iraq whether those targeting U.S. troops or innocent Iraqis are of the advance type and must have an army of experts and technicians behind them.



They are devouring Iraqi children, women and the elderly. Innocent Iraqis are the main fodder of this cruel and vicious circle of violence.



U.S. authorities and Iraqi government have failed drastically in checking the violence. The only thing they do is condemning these acts and blaming them for Qaeda-linked terrorists and loyalists of the former leader Saddam Hussein.



But Iraqis are not convinced by such na�ve excuses. They need the U.S. and the Iraqi authorities it backs to tell them where all these car bombs come from? How could they sneak through so many checkpoints and road blocks U.S. and Iraqi troops have set up in Baghdad?



These cars have registration and serial numbers. We have not heard that the authorities have ever been able to identify the owner of a car bomb or where it came from.



Before the fall of Baghdad to U.S. troops, the country had a sophisticated car registration system and the authorities could identify the owner of any vehicle in a matter of minutes from the wreckage.



Iraqis have the right to ask whether the U.S. has any military, intelligence and scientific capability left in Iraq. What is the government doing? Does it have really a plan?



The U.S. and Iraqi government are talking about a new security plan. But if they cannot say who owns which car in Baghdad how will they be able to spread their control over a sprawling city of six million people.



The new security plan for Baghdad is just an attempt to contain Iraqis fury and anger over their failures. It will certainly end up in a fiasco, like the plans preceding it.



Instead of it being �a decisive attack on terror in the capital�, as they claim, the plan will add more fuel to the raging fire of violence and intensify current tensions and disturbances.