Meanwhile the international organizations dealing with human rights advocacy strive for death penalty abolition the USA and Great Britain are cogitating over this capital punishment being recurrently enforced in Iraq. The British "Times" reported it. Under the governance of Saddam Hussein there existed the institute of death penalty in the country, however, after the overthrow of dictatorship capital punishment was cancelled as a proof of adherence to democratic transformation on the part of the new powers. Now the development of events in this Arabic country over the latest time compels the occupational authorities to contemplate over the necessity of this institute to be reinstated. Americans and the British seem to be beginning to understand without punitive measures. A partisan war whose probability was predicted by analysts has been enhancing every day. American soldiers. Iraqi partisans managed to shoot down an American helicopter; 15 soldiers having perished, 21 being wounded. The American war command recognized the fact.
Yet several months ago order and legality in Iraq seemed to be managed in the shortest time. The new powers thought more of restoration of destroyed cities and economy. Judging by the "orderly" surrender of Iraqi soldiers it was difficult to suppose that any new resistance might break out. Some people stuck to the opinion that a sort of collusion existed between Americans and Saddam Hussein according to which the dictator had been proposed to surrender the country without battles in exchange for life. All month resistance since the beginning of militant operations was only an attempt of war imitation. You can estimate only in this way the statement of one of Russian connoisseurs of the Near East, ex-premier of the Russian Federation Yevgeny Primakov telecast some days ago by Russian TV. The mysterious disappearance of Iraqi tanks and planes Primakov told about remains a riddle. However, the outbroken resistance of partisans refutes a potentiality of such agreement to exist. Saddam Hussein himself may not be related wit the present resistance in any way either. Whether Saddam takes part in the partisan war or not, whether he guides it or not, another thing is of importance - resistance in organized by the groups which take revenge on Americans and the British on his behalf using his name. These are people brought up under the influence of his propaganda, devoted to his ideals. Though one can't exclude that terroristic acts are performed by Islamic armed formations, which penetrated into the country; in the course of years they have been opposing Israeli occupational forces.
Thus or otherwise, the present situation in Iraq resembles the situation the Soviet troops found themselves in having intruded into Afghanistan. The events in Afghanistan evolve in conformity with the same scenario, but the escalation of tension in Iraq is higher because there is no intestine strife here which divides common people into opposing camps. Under any concatenation of circumstances in Iraq the people will see an occupant in every American and British citizen for a long time yet. Years will be needed to erase an image of the enemy from memory. The significant enhancement of tensity in Iraq is vindicated by the commenced process of activity cutting on the part of a number of international organizations. The latest terroristic acts, for example, compelled International Red Cross Committee also declared about their staff reduction. The explosion near its headquarters in Baghdad, which had caused the death of their two employees, became an alarming signal for the organization. Though the American Senate upheld the resolution on allotment of 57.5 billion dollars for the restoration of Afghanistan and Iraq Bush's administration had requested the attitude of common Americans towards Iraq occupation is changing. Each American soldier who perished on the territory of Iraq and Afghanistan beats upon the rating of the American president, which is reducing with the rapprochement of recurrent elections of the head of the White House. And now the events in Iraq are developing so that every day of the USA troops' sojourn in Iraq brings new victims into American families. According to foreign MM data for the total period of military actions the American troops lost 154 people, but in peaceful time, to the end of October, this figure is exceeded by one man more; 15 perished soldiers in the helicopter being not taken into account. One can say for sure, Associated Press agency asserts, that the national political unity in the American society which reigned after September 11is being gradually nullified. In post-war Iraq the White House policy finds less and less adherents both in the United States and in Iraq itself.