I have nothing to say but I ask God to save the wounded Iraq from the traitors.

I find that the Iraqi government is delinquent regarding the rights of the Iraqi citizens, who have the right to live a quiet and stable life and enjoy safety. But the ordinary Iraqi citizens have suffered long years of oppression and abhorrent dictatorship, because of war and terrorism, and then robbery, kidnapping and killing. So, the question is, when will the citizens be able to enjoy comfort in this country? We do not want to be rich, but at least we want to be comfortable, and we want citizens to be able to carry out their work in safety and freedom. Here, we are getting closer to the time of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, and the Iraqi government declares that the security forces are ready, and that all the authorities of the state are fully ready to maintain the security and integrity of the country; but in fact, we see from time to time an attack in broad daylight on the shops of goldsmiths in various regions, and armed robberies on the banks. This makes the Iraqi citizens lose confidence in our security forces. Otherwise, how can they be spread out in the street, day and night, while they are unable to stop these criminals and confiscate their weapons? So I find that the government should establish many investigative councils, to enable it to get to those who cooperate with the criminal gangs via the security forces, because any security forces certainly include bad and good elements.

The security situation has deteriorated significantly in Iraq. I really do not know what the Iraqi government is waiting for to take action. Tens of Iraqis die or sustain wounds every day, let alone the assassinations that target the professors and intellectuals, and the armed robberies that target the shops and banks. The situation is totally bad and unacceptable.

All these gangs are criminal groups, but they are connected with the evil terrorist organization of al-Qaeda, which has gathered all these gangs and coordinated with them to work together. The robberies against the gold shops had disappeared over the past years, but they have witnessed a sudden surge in the recent months. We should not forget that al-Qaeda suffers from a financial crisis, as admitted by the confessions of its arrested members and leaders. They also said that the organization has lost all its internal and external financial support, because the heroic security forces eliminated the infiltrators, who used to bring money and other aid to the evil terrorist organization of al-Qaeda. Consequently, they started resorting to robberies, to achieve self-sufficiency and to finance their activities and members.

The spread of armed robberies in Baghdad has grieved the citizens of Baghdad greatly. After the disappearance of car bombings, the gangs and the robberies appeared, spreading fear among shop owners, who expect attacks on their shops at any moment. These criminal groups move from place to place and carry out many crimes, including robberies in different areas. What are those people guilty of, whose shops are robbed by force? What is the role of the security forces in protecting the gold shops and securing them? I believe that it would be very difficult for these gangs to move freely and lie about this while carrying weapons, since we have many checkpoints in all areas!! In fact, this issue is very suspicious, and the doubts here imply that some security men collaborate with these gangs. Hence, the police must investigate and interrogate all the suspects to find out the truth about how these gangs succeed in moving about so freely in broad daylight, crossing through the checkpoints that are supposed to search all cars, to rob the gold shops and the banks. I believe that there is collaboration on the part of some security men at the checkpoints, or that there is negligence regarding the performance of their duties in the best cases. It is unacceptable to see these robberies that happen in broad daylight of banks and gold shops, which should be secured properly. The government and its security forces need to protect the citizens and the shop owners in particular. This issue is too dangerous to go on without investigation, because it has exceeded all proper limits and turned into a phenomenon. We have to treat this dangerous situation seriously, to eliminate the robberies that are carried out by the terrorist elements or gangs.

These terrorist groups attack the gold shops in the Al-Mansour district to achieve two main purposes: the first is to disturb the security situation, because such robberies are more disturbing than ordinary thefts, because they happen in crowded and prominent areas amidst the markets and commercial streets. The terrorists want to frighten the largest possible number of Iraqis through these acts, so that they feel that they are still present and influential in the security arena in Iraq. Secondly, these robberies represent a useful financial resource for the terrorists, who lost many of their financial resources after the security forces succeeded in taking control of the borders. Hence, the terrorists found that carrying out such robberies is the only way to hit two birds with one stone.