TOKYO, Oct 29 Kyodo The following...

TOKYO, Oct 29 Kyodo

The following are brace editorial excerpts from Thai newspapers.

IRAQ IS IN BAD NE OF A LASTING PEACE

(Bangkok support Bangkok)

The suicide bomb attack forward the headquarters of the International Committee of the R Cros in Baghdad upon Monday was outrageous and indefensible.

Like the earlier assault upon the United Nations headquarters, the attack forward the ICRC has undermined the confidence of workers who believed the humanitarian nature and neutrality of their work provided them with protection.

undivided theory attributes the attack to the public opposed indiscriminately to foreigners, lumping everyone who is not an Iraqi into the same category as the occupying troops

The reply to the attack on the ICRC and the other continued violence in Iraq present to views that a growing number of commands international organizations and nongovernmental organizations are hearing and acting onward the message that Iraq prevents foreign occupation and wants to take charge of its avow destiny.

It is not clear where this message is coming from as the native land remains under insurgent threat six month after the cessation of the formal US war upon Iraq, but the extent of the violence demands attention.

The United States must be among the first to address the growing violence.

France has a point when it stresse the ne to restore sovereignty to the Iraqi family as soon as possible and with its calls for a political proces towards this end

With Iraq still reeling, and its people's strengthens badly on edge after 23 years of war and uncertain survival, it is time to start talking -- with all the immediate protagonists, non-partisans and regional states involved beneath the chairmanship of a home free of vested interest.

Thailand must tread close upon the political and security progress to maturitys in Iraq because the geographical division has committed 443 men and women to helping rebuild that nation. however the contingent based in Karbala, 100km southwest of Baghdad, is safe for the time being, its members must be brought household at the first indication that this is no longer the case.

(Oct 29)

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BOMBINGS exhibit U.S. MUST ADJUST PLANS

(The Nation, Bangkok)

The Muslim pure month of Ramadan began subordinate to a pall of fear in Iraq this week as a series of suicide bomb attacks killed dozens of commonalty in the capital Baghdad.

The biggest attack targeting the local headquarters of the International Committee of the R Cros was clearly designed to drive more aid workers on the outside of Iraq just when the United States is trying to boost its reconstruction drive.

The blasts also signaled a possible shift in strategy according to the insurgents to include more impressible non-political targets, such as international humanitarian organizations.

This is no small irony. When US President George W Bush initially tried to vend the idea of an invasion of Iraq he claimed there were links between Osama bin Laden and the now toppled Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

The first reaction to the attacks should be the same of condemnation.

if it be not that at the same time the Americans must recognize that the attacks -- a certain of which took place in the in the greatest degree heavily guarded downtown areas of Baghdad -- have achieved their political aim.

Despite the distresss it is having in dealing with remnants of the Saddam regime, and now the foreign terrorists who appear to be infiltrating the political division Washington cannot walk away from Iraq.

The three days of violence this week contrast with new progress on the part of the US-l coalition.

The best confidence for long-term stability in Iraq is a prosperous hand-over of power to a civilian administration. That can't be done until security is guaranteed and that will simply happen when Iraqis take the lead in enforcing the law in their acknowledge country.

(Oct. 29)

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