Daily Lessons from Life 19 February 2012 - Suicide bomb kills 15 at Baghdad police academy

"Suicide bomb kills 15 at Baghdad police academy - AFP 19 February 2012

BAGHDAD: A suicide car bomber blew himself up in front of a Baghdad police academy on Sunday, killing 15 people and wounding 21 others in the deadliest attack for weeks in the Iraqi capital, security officials said.

At least seven other people were killed in attacks elsewhere in Iraq.

The suicide bomber "blew himself up at the entrance of the police academy on Palestine Street," an interior ministry official said, putting the toll at 15 killed and 21 wounded. A police colonel confirmed the toll.

It was the deadliest attack in Iraq since January 27, when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car outside a hospital in the Iraqi capital, killing 31 people.

Also on Sunday, gun and bomb attacks in other parts of the country killed seven people, among them four police informants, a policeman and two anti-Qaeda militiamen, and wounded four others, security officials said.

Violence in Iraq is down from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common, killing 151 people in January.

A Baghdad military spokesman said earlier this month that the ranks of Al-Qaeda, for which suicide bombings are a favoured tactic, have thinned dramatically but the organisation remains a danger in Iraq.

Only two to three potential suicide bombers enter Iraq each month compared to 100 would-be martyrs in 2006, when sectarian violence killed on average 180 people per day, according to the same source."

When will all these end? Will it ever with such mindless violence? I agreed you cannot protect yourself against someone who does not care about his or her own death but yet someone some day will come to realize that the sacrifice MUST bring some tanglible changes for the good. I wondered what did the suicide bombers' masters promised them besides that 'martymdom in heaven and 50 or 200 virgins' tales!

Lessons for me are:

1. back to the basic: what do the majority of the people of Iraq want?;

2. is it POSSIBLE to discuss rationally with religion being involved? Is it possible that someone in the religious corners with power over the emotionally connected Iraqi to put emotion aside and think rationally what exactly do they want?;

3. what do the MAJORITY of the Iraqi people want, emotionally connected to the religion or not? If ALL want to have PEACE and STABILITY so that they can go about practicing their religion, raise their children, get jobs that provide them with a reasonable quality of living, they MUST speak out and STOP the senseless violence. If the majority of the people REALLY REALLY want that, they will be able to flush out ANY emotionally skewed Iraqi suicide bombers as THEY KNOW their own people better than anyone else!

May the Iraqi people resolve their national problems - even without the benefits of the well meaning but still messed it up American and Allied Forces! Money cannot buy your love and peace in this country they tried to liberate from tyranny!