Iraqi Government Cannot Stop Terrorists
Amid mounting questions on the efficiency of Iraq’s security apparatus, the Interior Ministry proves unable to provide even rough statistics on the daily bombings that afflict the country.
There are no official Iraqi statistics about the number of bomb-rigged cars that have exploded since the beginning of this year.
It all seems very confusing when you ask the Iraqi Interior Ministry for a detailed count of the number of car bombs, and receive a reply from the ministry’s spokesman that “the number is confidential and obtaining it necessitates a long list of approvals.”
Things are no different at the UN mission in Iraq, which told Al-Monitor that it did not keep such statistics.
The lack of official figures does not mean that it is impossible to obtain fairly accurate numbers by reviewing the succession of events on the Iraqi scene since the beginning of the year. Such a review leads us to a number between 200 and 225 car bombs that have exploded in the faces of Iraqi citizens, claiming thousands of victims in the past 10 months alone.
