Blog Entry 6

Another wave of bombings has occurred in Iraq this past week. With the war and violence always happening in Iraq, it doesn't seem like a big issue. But bombings are occurring more and more, killing off the people in Iraq. I feel soon there may be only a select number of people still living in Iraq if the war keeps going.
A recent article in the New York Times stated, "The frequent bombings have raised concerns about the government’s ability to contain the violence, since the last American troops left in December after more than eight years of occupation and civil war that upended Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-led minority power base and empowered Iraq’s long-repressed Shiite majority." If the government cannot contain the violence, who can? Bombings are becoming a major problem all over the world, so much that governments cannot control and protect their communities/personal societies from terrorism because their men (police or "armies") are killing and getting killed.
Attacks are still being put in place by Al Qaeda stronghold. Since Osama Bin Laden's death, Al Qaeda has been anything but under the radar. They are still planning attacks and committing terrorism to let the world know they are "still in business". The article also stated, "No one immediately claimed responsibility for the violence, but car bombs are a hallmark of Al Qaeda. The insurgents have vowed to take back areas of the country, like Taji, from which they were pushed before American troops withdrew." Al Qaeda knows the mess they are getting themselves into, but they don't care. They just want to have their leader back and be a true organization again. Multiple car bombings have happened in the past couple of weeks and government is now concerned that Al Qaeda is back, full force, and ready for revenge. It isn't just innocent lives being killed by Al Qaeda, the police are also being affected. "And in northern Iraq, a police officer was killed when security forces were trying to defuse a car bomb parked on the main highway between the cities of Kirkuk and Tuz Khormato, the Kirkuk police chief, Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadir, said. A second officer was wounded in the explosion, General Qadir said. Kirkuk is about 180 miles north of Baghdad." It almost seems like Al Qaeda and all of Iraq are experiencing/enforcing a sense of capital punishment.
"Violence has dropped since the height of Iraq’s bloodshed a few years ago, but Iraqi forces have failed to stop the attacks that continue to claim lives almost daily." It is time for war to stop and government to gain control again. 

Time: 1:55 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/world/middleeast/another-wave-of-bombings-across-iraq.html?ref=terrorism