Iraq GC rebukes US on security

By: Hamoud Kufi

BAGHDAD, Iraq: Iraq’s US-led occupiers must do more to provide security following bomb attacks that left more than 200 husseini mourners martyred in the holy cities of Karbala and Kazemayn which house the holy shrines of Al-Imam Al-Hussein (p), Hadhrat Al-Abbas (p), Al-Imam Mousa Al-Kazem (p) an Al-Imam Taqi Al-Jawwad (p).

The current chief of Iraq's interim US-backed Governing Council Bahr-ul-Uloom said this on Thursday while talking to reporters as he visited a hospital where survivors of Tuesday's attack at Kazemayn’s holy shrine were being treated.

“I put the blame on the authorities,” he said. “The coalition forces are part of the authorities and they are in charge of maintaining security, so they should do all that they can to maintain security.”

Ayatullah Ali As-Sistani has blamed US forces for failing to secure Iraq's borders.

US administrator for Iraq Paul Bremer said Wednesday that Washington would spend $60 million to boost security on Iraq's long, porous borders. He said hundreds more vehicles and security personnel would be used to beef up security.

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