October 28, 2003	Tuesday	Ramazan 1, 1424

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WASHINGTON, Oct 27: US President George Bush, who presided a meeting of his security team on Monday to discuss the situation in Iraq, said that the bomb attacks in Baghdad could not force him to change his policy.

“We will stay the course in Iraq,” he declared.

Talking to reporters in Washington along with US administrator for Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, Mr Bush vowed to catch the attackers and bring them to justice.

“We will find them,” said the US president who also thanked other nations for agreeing to donate billions of dollars to his Iraq fund.

“There are terrorists in Iraq who are willing to kill anybody in order to stop our progress. The more successful we are on the ground, the more these killers will react,” Mr Bush told reporters after the meeting.

“And our job is to find them and bring them to justice, which is precisely what Gen Abizaid briefed us on,” he added.

The Iraqi people, he said, got to understand that “their future must not be determined by these kind of killers.”

He said that Mr Bremer and Gen Abizaid had briefed him on how “the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.”

His government, he said, is determined to hear the call from the Iraqis, and “the call is they want a society in which their children can go to school, in which they can get good health care, in which they’re able to live a peaceful life.”

“It’s in the national interest of the United States that a peaceful Iraq emerge. And we will stay the course in order to achieve this objective,” he added.

Mr Bush said the US administration in Iraq had hardened the security for US personnel in Iraq and that’s why the attackers were now forced to attack places like the Red Cross, or police stations.