Bolani urges to open fortified IZ

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The former Minister of Interior, Jawad al-Bolani, urged to open the fortified International Zone like other areas to avoid the terrorist attacks.

He assured in a press statement received by IraqiNews.com “If the government abandoned the excessive concerns and opened the IZ like other areas, the terrorist will not have the chance to conduct exceptional attacks against it.”

“The government promised to open the IZ previously to create equality between the Government and the people to yet this area is still fortified in an exaggerated way,” he added.

“This issue gives the impression that the government protects the officials rather than the people,” he concluded.

Earlier, a suicide bombing targeted one of the gates of the International Zone killing some citizens and injuring others including MP, Habib al-Turfi, of the Citizen bloc in central Baghdad on Monday.