http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8215208.stm
Last week's devestating terrorist attacks on Government buildings in Baghdad show that, despite the withdrawl of US troops, Islamists and Ba'athists are still intent on destroying Iraq's sovereign Government and imposing their ideology on its people. Iraq will surely suffer more such attacks in the foreseeable future. But the extremists have been contained and they may, one day, be defeated. Kurdistan remained largely peaceful after 2003 and Islamists never gained much support. In the above link Jayir Gul presents an interesting report from the region which offers a glimpse of how Baghdad could look five years from now, if the extremists are defeated and Iraqis make the right choices.
