Iraqi Prime Minister Ebrahim Al Jaafari yesterday told his violence-weary nation to brace for even larger attacks as insurgents exact revenge on the government for its "success" in rebuilding the country. At least seven Iraqis were killed in a new spate of attacks that followed a bloody sequence of days for the Iraqi security forces, as US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick met Al Jaafari in Baghdad in a bid to to boost the reconstruction process.Speaking in parliament, Al Jaafari said the recent kidnapping and killing of Egypt's top envoy to Baghdad by alleged Al Qaida militants was a direct response to the success of the Brussels donors conference for Iraq's reconstruction held on June 22. "The killing of the late Ehab Al Sharif was nothing but an expression of the success of the political process," Al Jaafari said. "So we must prepare ourselves that every time we make progress in the process and every time we make big achievements the reaction will be big. This operation (Al Sharif's killing) aims to undermine the major political progress we achieved in a short time." An Iraqi foreign ministry delegation is being dispatched to Cairo to try to close the rift between the two countries that emerged after the killing of Al Sharif, who was kidnapped from a Baghdad street on July 2.