Bomb explosions near the Polish embassy in Baghdad on Monday
have no relation to Polish troops stationing in Iraq, Polish
Defense Minister Aleksander Szczyglo said.
"I called on the opposition parties in August to refrain from
treating Polish foreign military missions abroad as an element of
the election campaign," Szczyglo was quoted by Polish PAP news
agency as saying.
"Now I can repeat that call because recent statements of some of
the opposition politicians have been unwise, dangerous and careless
and risky for Polish troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
Carelessness in statements concerning this matter is dangerous for
our soldiers there," the minister said.
The Monday bomb attack on the Polish embassy in Baghdad was no
coincidence, according to former Minister of Defense Radek
Sikorski, who is from the opposite Platform Civic party.
"Terrorists launch attacks to bring about political
consequences. Perhaps their chief motivation is to strike in the
course of the election campaign (in Poland)," he said.
According to reports, a car bomb near Polish embassy in
Baghdad's Arrasat neighborhood was detonated on Monday, killing a
civilian and wounding five other Iraqis.
Last Wednesday, Polish Ambassador to Iraq Edward Pietrzyk was
wounded in three roadside bomb explosions near his convoy in the
neighborhood. An agent of the Polish Government Protection Office
(BOR) aboard was killed.
(Xinhua News Agency October 9, 2007)
