BAGHDAD,
June 28 (IslamOnline.net) – Iraqi experts accused 'foreign hands' of
being behind the deadly string of random attacks in the war-torn
country in an attempt to stir unrest ahead of the handover of power to
Iraqis.
"The
current wave of car bombs targeting Iraqi civilians are surely carried
out by foreign hands to blemish the image of resistance groups and
impede the power transfer to the interim government," Rushdi Al-Ani,
professor of history and Islamic civilization in Baghdad University,
told IslamOnline.net on Sunday, June 27.
He
said such attacks cannot be justified as they claim the lives of
innocent civilians and add to the state of chaos in the country.
"I’m
confident that they [foreign hands] want to destabilize the country
and influence the power transfer," he added.
The
vicious cycle of violence will give reason to the overstay of the
US-led occupation in the country after the power handover, he said.
"Insecurity
and instability play well in the hands of the US occupation to prove
that the Iraqis can’t take over security or protect
themselves," explained Ani.
Salman
Ali Al-Jamili, professor of political sciences in the same university,
agreed.
"The
US wants unrest to prevail nationwide to hold to the security
responsibilities after the power transfer as instability will
guarantee the loyalty of the Iraqi government," he told IOL.
Jamili
said such indiscriminate attacks could call off the planned elections,
which could result in, if fair, patriotic figures threatening the US
interests.
In
a surprising move, the US-led occupation authorities
to the
country’s interim government on Monday, June 28, two days earlier
than expected.
An
Iraqi official told CNN that interim premier Iyad Allawi requested the
expedition of power transfer because "every day matters" and
they were ready to crack down the worsening security conditions.
Lay
people in Iraq received the power transfer with an unmistakable
message: The US-led occupation troops, who will stay under the guise
of a multinational keeping force, must leave.
Resistance
Penetrated
Jamili
believes that some resistance pockets are penetrated either by Iraqi
intelligence or foreign powers.
He
said such powers want to deepen the Iraqi quagmire and to perplex the
US occupation troops to head off any future US attacks on their
homeland.
Jamili
also made a veiled reference to Al-Qaeda network, saying the US was in
an open conflict with armed groups in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.
Several
car bombs and attacks in Iraq have left hundreds dead this month.
Two
car bombs
