These attacks pose an interesting political question for us. If American forces alone were facing the brunt of the current resistance one could argue there was a strong Iraqi opposition and ground swell of popular opinion against the Americans. As the Minister of State said, however, some of the attacks have been against the United Nations and the Red Cross proving that the resistance is not just anti-American. The bombing of the UN and Red Cross targets is a sign that certain groups in Iraq are pursuing a straightforward terrorist trail of bombing and destruction and I am sure that those people who bombed the Red Cross and the United Nations buildings, and who murdered and killed people in those organisations, have no interest in building a new Iraq but want to return to Saddam Hussein's Iraq. These people were the beneficiaries of the Saddam regime. They were his protectors and his police and they want now what they had before. It is in the interests of the United States and of all groups who favour democracy to try to foil these attacks. Above all, it is in the interests of the future of the Iraqi people and their nation to ensure the people who tortured, maimed and murdered tens of thousands of their own citizens over the past ten or 20 years will not set the agenda for the building of a new Iraq.