Nobody knows who's killing whom. Even the police don't know. Everybody is vulnerable, and no part of the community is immune.

When you have this number of killings every day, when you have 676 people die from shooting in a month, you're talking about mass killing. It's not civil war, but it's instability, and it's out of control.

In the days of Saddam, we had maybe 16 shootings a month. Now we have more than that every day.

The destruction of sacred sites and the killing of young police forces does not concern the American forces. The main problem facing Iraq is the presence of foreign occupants which has become a motive for Iraqis to resort to violence.

Like it or not, a Jewish cemetery is an extension of the Jewish community. The police can have one view; we can have another. This doesn't affect our feelings. We'll always work with the police.

The authority received protests from various police and community officials.