READER COMMENTS

The Arab countries should carry out joint coordination, so as to secure the common borders between any two neighboring countries with each other, as well as securing their borders by using modern tools to search for drugs in luggage. The inspection should be done by the state from which the traveler is coming, and an inspection should also be done in the country to which he is traveling. Nobody should be exempted from the inspection procedures, whatever his influence or nationality, as there is nobody above the law. Everybody is guilty till he manages to prove himself innocent. The internal monitoring should be increased in the public places and clubs, to reduce the entry of or the trading in those poisons. As for the parents, they should take care of their children and monitor them and know their friends very well, to limit any opportunity that may make them close to those poisons. God is the keeper and the supporter from any evil.

We all know how far this criminal organization goes and what meanness this atoning terrorist organization has reached! This has led to targeting everything in Iraq such as the unarmed civilians. I consider such crimes as evidence of the shabbiness, villainy and deterioration of this organization. These bloody attacks are rejected and condemned. We deny them and all the criminals, and the fools who carry out these criminal acts. These crimes are evidence of the extent of the deficit reached by the organization to the extent that they have lost their balance and targeted harmless people. They kill civilians. Down with terrorism and the Qaeda organization. Shame and disgrace on them for their cowardly crimes that will soon end them, God willing! The champions of Iraq will make them an example for all the terrorist organizations all over the world.

The insistence of al-Qaeda on continuing springs only from its thought and approach, which springs from its insistence on applying this approach. Whatever the sacrifices and whenever the method differs, this thought is their approach, and you find them in a simple way saying: “We would like to apply God’s legislation and we would like peace to prevail all over the world.” Some of them say: “We are not terrorists, but the greatest majority in the world, as well as the complications and the conspiracies against Islam and its followers, push us to follow the path of defending ourselves by any means, whatever it is.” In my opinion, this is what they believe in, so you should not be surprised by any of their acts, as they sometimes believe that they are trapped and are sure that they are being targeted. Therefore, you find among their acts something that makes you afraid and disturbs you, where their aim is the aim that springs from the ideology, and the approach that they would like to apply by any means is their motivation. It is known that Afghanistan is one of the world’s top countries in the production of drugs, especially opium, and it is common knowledge as well that the greatest planters of these drugs are al-Qaeda groups that plant them so as to fund themselves, in order to buy weapons and to carry out what will help them in reaching their aims. It is known that the areas of conflict in the world are mostly known for the drug industry and trade, as well as the areas next to the areas of conflict, because if they do not do that, they will not have anything to fund them, and they will not be able to apply their thought and approach as well. Such movements resort to abducting tourists and the foreigners working outside their countries, as well as the known figures, so as to be able to finance themselves by asking for ransom to release them; or some of them, especially the small extremist movements, resort to kidnapping people whose money they consider a trophy that has been allowed by God. All that is done so as to be able to apply their approach and thought, and so they will not be scattered due to the funding issue, as it is a main base, if not the main base, after the doctrine and the approach they follow.

The al-Qaeda organization has started to emerge in the Iraqi arena as one of the armed groups that started at that time and began to resist the occupier. However, this group has started to behave in an uncommon way. The international community in general and the people of Iraq in particular have realized that al-Qaeda is committing crimes, not only against the Shiites, but also against the Sunni community. Perhaps the importance of their crimes has sometimes exceeded the crimes of the Mahdi and Badr Armies, such as the chlorine gas bombings in Anbar. The preacher members of the Iraqi Islamic Party have suffered a significant share of the crimes of al-Qaeda. In fact, these preachers are known in the society of Iraq for their truthfulness and their unequalled devotion to the nation. Even their opponents would admit that those preachers are honest. Al-Qaeda members have killed many Islamic leaders who were active actors in the political arena. Others had been active in resisting the Americans. As usual, the hypocrites are trying to take advantage of events afflicting Muslims in order to conquer the honest people. The hypocrites attribute all their problems and their failure to the Iraqi Islamic Party. The killing of a group of members of the Islamic Army in Amiriya is only an example of their hypocrisy. Then, they claimed that the Islamic Party was responsible for the acts of sectarianism. Al-Qaeda is one of the biggest threats that face Muslims in this age, because they kill other Muslims in the name of Islam.