We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

Once again, the shedders of innocent blood, the dwarfs who have only known treachery, treason and aggression, have perpetrated a new crime: the assassination of a senior Iraqi diplomat.

We should not deny this, we should be brave enough to talk about it.

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

We deplore this terrorist act and vow to get the criminals to justice as soon as possible,