The prime minister of Iraq promised Thursday to "annihilate" terrorist groups operating in the country
Published:
16 July 2004 y., Friday
The prime minister of Iraq promised Thursday to "annihilate" terrorist groups operating in the country. The prime minister announced the creation of a new security force to do the job.
On a day that saw another deadly car bombing in Iraq, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi Thursday announced creation of a new intelligence security service that will deal specifically with the widespread insurgency in the country. During a news conference in Baghdad, the prime minister promised to put an end to terrorist groups in Iraq.
"We are determined to eliminate them by establishing a general intelligence unit called the General Security Directorate, GSD, that will annihilate those terrorist groups, God willing," he said.
Mr. Allawi said the interim government is seeing increasing coordination between groups linked to al-Qaida and loyalists to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
In an effort to improve security, especially along Iraq's porous border, Mr. Allawi said he would soon travel to nearby Arab states including Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to discuss security issues.
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