that had a political mission. the people killed were members of the aliyah iraqi party, that's the party of the former prime minister, allawi. he joins me now from baghdad. thank you for joining me, prime minister allawi. >> thank you for having me. >> first tell me about this bomb blast, an associate of yours killed. who are the people responsible for this attack you think? >> well, i think, you know, the whole, unfortunately, environment now is quite helpful to terrorists and extremism, to inflict as much damage on iraq as possible. so really, there are no indications who is behind it, but definitely those who are trying to sabotage the political process, which has already stalled. >> but one would have to imagine, there have been two