Kekerasan di Irak sudah tidak terkendali perlu dihentikan kembali dengan mengadakan perundingan dan dialog di tiga pihak. (US,Pemerintahan Irak, Pejuang Irak). Sudah banyak masyarakat dibunuh dengan membabi buta oleh ketiga pihak. Presiden Irak perlu bertidak mendamaikan ketiga pihak dalam mengambil alih pengontrolan di Irak, sebab bila ada menteri telah membahayakan ketentraman dan kehidupan masyarakat di Irak. Presiden Irak perlu dalam posisi di netral dan mengajak mereka dialog.
Mungkin masalah Irak perlu diangkat di mana pihak pihak saling tidak puas. Termasuk keinginan masyarakat bersama pejuang Irak dalam menanyakan tujuan kependudukan asing pada 30 June04. Bila para pejuang maupun rakyat Irak menolak kependudukan pasukan asing tetapi bisa menerima kerja sama dengan para karyawan asing untuk membangun Irak? Perlu ada tindakan mencegah kekerasan telah banyak memakan korban dari kalangan rakyat. wassalam, --------------------------------- Iraq Violence Takes Toll on Civilians BAQOUBA, Iraq - Second-grader Ali Talmasan Qassim sobbed as he sat beneath a palm tree outside a hospital, nursing a gunshot wound in his arm. A few miles away, the body of a young woman in a black chador lay in a pool of blood near a smoldering car. Parts of her face were missing, but her eyes were wide open. These are two of the many civilian victims of widespread violence Thursday in several cities in Iraq (news - web sites), starting with insurgent attacks that sparked heavy battles between militants and U.S. and Iraqi troops. Dozens of Iraqis were killed and hundreds wounded. Seven-year-old Qassim and the unidentified woman embody a danger that has stalked civilians here for more than a year of American occupation: The peril of getting caught in the crossfire. A total of 1,258 Iraqis were killed across this Arab nation between May 4 and June 17, according to a Health Ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity. During the same period, 4,317 Iraqis were wounded. Qassim, wearing plastic flip-flops, blue shorts stained with his own blood and an orange T-shirt, made a new entry on the injured list. So did his mother, 6-month-old brother Abdullah and uncle Mohammed Qassim, hit by shrapnel in his hand, shoulder and back. Sitting with his family in the shade, Qassim didn't say much but occasionally rested his head on his mother's shoulder. "It hurts," he whispered. His mother, wounded by shrapnel in her left leg, held Abdullah on her lap. Stripped down to his underwear in the 120-degree heat, the baby had small shrapnel wounds on his left thigh. Qassim's father, Talmasan, a 39-year-old police lieutenant colonel, blamed U.S. troops for the attack on his family. "I asked the Iraqi civil defense soldier whether it was safe to drive past the Americans, and he said 'yes.' A few seconds later we were fired on," he said, standing next to his car. The front passenger window was shattered and the door pockmarked by gunfire. "You know how they (the Americans) are, they just shoot at anyone," said Talmasan Qassim, who had been trying to get his family to a safer area when they were shot at. "May God destroy America and all those who cooperate with it!" screamed a man from inside the emergency ward, venting a fury felt by many in Baqouba, where hatred for the U.S. occupation has been evident from the start. Iraqis tend to exaggerate or distort accounts of such deaths, and blaming the Americans is common. Killing at the hands of the Americans is proof of what Iraqis consider the brutality of the U.S. military. The Americans say the incidental deaths of Iraqi civilians are often caused by failure to stop at checkpoints, being at the wrong place at the wrong time or because insurgents often hide among civilians. Whatever the reason, civilian casualties have played a big part in deepening Iraqi resentment toward the United States � and will most likely figure in the nation's collective memory of the occupation, scheduled to formally end June 30. More anger at the United States was in evidence a few miles away from the hospital, where a group of Iraqis gathered around the burning wreck of a car punctured with dozens of bullet holes. Inside were the charred remains of three men. Witnesses said the car had continued to travel toward a cluster of U.S. tanks despite shouts from bystanders for the driver to turn back. Lying on the road was the body of another passenger � a woman who looked to be in her late 20s or early 30s, with parts of her face missing. As many as a 100 shell casings littered the site. Ziyad Eid, 33, and Bassem Horeir, 20, said they saw the incident across the street from the private hospital where they work. They blamed American forces. "There were no warning shots and no fighters in the area, so why did they have to shoot them like that?" said Horeir. "Those Americans shoot at everyone. They just want to hurt us," said another bystander, who refused to give his name. 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