July-December, 2003

Iraq War - Fighting a War without Identifying the Enemy

11/19/2006

- July 2003: Fifty American soldiers would lose their lives in the war against terror this month. Slightly more than half of them, 27, were killed by the civilian population they were liberating. The most effective Muslim murderers ambushed supply convoys because they were the easiest prey. The other 23 lives lost were sacrificed in non-combat related accidents. The ratio was now: Mistakes @ 176 of 301 or 58%. Muslims @ 120 of 301, or 40%. Saddam Hussein's regime had claimed the remaining 5 lives, less then 2% of the total. Moreover, as we discovered earlier, 13 of the 25 accidental deaths attributed to Afghanistan earlier in the year were actually a direct result of the buildup for the Iraqi campaign further skewing the numbers from Muslims to mishaps. In addition, 226 Americans were wounded in Iraq this month bringing the total to 971.

I would be remiss if I didn't provide their names and a brief description of how the Americans died in the midst of the Iraqi summer. The war was ignoble, not the men who were sent to fight it.

The first three fatalities, Chris Coffin, 51, Travis Nall, 21, and Corey Small, 20, were the result of accidents on July 1st and 2nd.

Ed Herrgott, 20, was shot by a Muslim while he was on patrol in Baghdad.

Master Sargent James Coons, 35, of Conroe, Texas was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in Iraq. His body was found at an outpatient hotel near Walter Reed Medical Center on July 4th. The military ruled that his suicide must be counted as a casualty of war.

Jeff Wershow, 22, was shot by an Iraqi civilian while on patrol in Baghdad on July 6th. David Parson, 30, was shot searching a Baghdad home for weapons on the same day.

Barry Sanford, 46, was killed by a gunshot wound in Balad, Iraq. It was "friendly fire." A Muslim militant murdered Chad Keith, 21. The Iraqi detonated an IED as Chad drove his unarmored Humvee past it while on patrol in Baghdad.

Bob McKinley, 23, died in a military hospital from a "non-hostile" gunshot wound he received in Iraq.

Craig Boling, 38, from the Indiana National Guard, was spending his "one weekend a month" in Iraq where he died from a "non-combat related cause" on July 8th. The next day, Melissa Valles, 26, was killed by a "non-combat gunshot wound" in Balad, Iraq. That afternoon, a vehicle accident took Jason Tetrault's life.

Roger Rowe, 54, of Bon Aqua, Tennessee became the oldest U.S. soldier to die. He was a member of the National Guard and was representative of many men who were called out of the civilian workforce and sent off to war. A civilian gunman took his life because his religion made killing Infidels the path to paradise.

Dan Gabrielson, 39, another Reservist, was killed in a convoy ambush in Baquba on the 9th of July. Two days later in Baquba, Christian Schulz, 20, lost his life to "a non-combat injury." The following day, Josh Neusche, 20, of the Missouri National Guard, "died from a non-combat cause."

On July 13th, Jaror Coronado, 36, died from injuries received when he was hit by a dump truck while manning a traffic point in Camp Edson, Iraq. The same day Paul Cassidy, 36, a Reservist from Michigan, died as a result of a non combat injury in Camp Babylon, Iraq.

A rocket-propelled grenade shot by a Baghdad Muslim engaged in Allah's Cause took Mike Crockett's life on the 14th. The next day, Cory Geurin, 18, died as a result of injuries he received when he fell 60 feet from a palace roof while performing guard duty in Babylon, Iraq.

Ramon Torres, 29, was killed in the streets of Baghdad seeking cover from a passing truck that contained an explosive device. The following day, both Mason Whetstone, 30, and David Moreno, 26, died of non-hostile gunshot wounds.

On July 18th, James Linton, 43, died following a training run conducted in Iraq's 120 degree heat.

Joel Bertoldie, 20, was killed in Fallujah when an IED planted by al-Sadr's militia blew up underneath his vehicle. Later that same day, Johathan Rozier, 25, was killed when his unit was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles while they were providing security at a municip0al building in Baghdad.

America lost four soldiers on the 20th. Chris Willoughby, 29, a Georgia National Guard member was killed when his Humvee rolled over in Baghdad. David Scott, an Air Force Reservist was killed in a Doha, Qatar accident. Jason Jordan, 24, was ambushed in Tallifar, Iraq by Muslim militants wielding RPGs. Justin Garvey, 23, died in the same patrol.

The Muslim weapon of choice, an IED, claimed Mark Bibby's young life in the streets of Baghdad. He was riding in a convoy traveling into a water treatment facility.

On July 22nd, the people Jon Fetting, 30, of the ND National Guard, was trying to liberate killed him in Ramadi with an RPG. The next day, Brett Christian, 27, became the victim of another RPG, this one shot into his convoy as it passed through Mosul. Then in Baghdad, Joshua Byers, 29, was thanked for liberating the Iraqi people with an IED.

Four Americans died on the 24th. Juan Serrano, 31, was killed changing a Humvee tire in Baghdad when the vehicle crushed his head. Hector Perez, 40, Evan Ashcraft, 24, and Raheen Heighter, 22, were killed in an ambush outside of Hawd in northern Iraq. This was Kurd territory and this was probably the work of Ansar al-Islam - the Helpers of Submission.

The parents of Evan Ashcraft, of West Hills, California were the first names listed on the "Military Families Speak Out" press release calling Bush to apologize for starting a war on false premises. These 1,600 American military families want an immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq for obvious reasons.

The senseless deaths of Daniel Methvin, a 22-year-old from Belton, Texas Wilfredo Perez, 24, of Norwalk, Connecticut, and Johathan Barnes, 21, of Anderson, Missouri symbolized everything that was wrong with America being in Iraq. They were killed when a grenade was thrown from a window of the Baghdad hospital that the Americans were guarding.

Also on the 26th, Jonathan Cheatham, 19, was killed in Baghdad by a grenade - this one launched from an RPG.

An IED deployed by zealous Muslims took Bill Maher's life. It was dropped on his vehicle as his convoy traveled under an overpass in Baghdad. Nathan Hart's life was sacrificed in a vehicle accident in Tillil, Iraq. Leif Nott, 24, was killed when Islamic gunmen fired automatic weapons into a Belaruz, Iraq tactical operations center.

Then, on the last day of the month, Pvt. Michael Deutsch, 21, of Dubuque, Iowa was killed when his M113 Armored Personnel Carrier was destroyed by an IED in the streets of Baghdad.

And lest we forget, there were still Americans in Afghanistan. Chris Geiger of the Pennsylvania National Guard was killed in an accident in Bagram. Jeff Clark, 24, of Bay City, Florida died of an illness guarding the Afghani detainees in Guantanamo Bay.

- July 3, 2003: In Iraq today, Muslims demonstrated their animosity against free expression. Richard Wild, a British journalist was shot and killed as he stood outside a museum in Baghdad. He was about to research a story about looting at the museum when he was murdered. Seeking to make the media sympathetic to their cause, U.S. authorities blamed the attack on loyalists of Saddam Hussein, though there was absolutely no supporting evidence for their accusation.

- July 5, 2003: A British journalist was shot and killed in Baghdad. Media representatives were prime targets of the Muslim militias because of Islam's antagonism toward choice and free speech.

- July 6, 2003: In Ramadi, Iraq seven police recruits were killed and 74 were wounded when explosives tied to a utility pole were detonated during their graduation ceremony. They were part of the first U.S. trained class of police. They would be trendsetters, the first of many Iraqis security personnel to be killed by the civilian population.

- July 8, 2003: A Muslim militia lobbed grenades into a police station in Baghdad and then raked the occupants with gunfire. Two Iraqis were wounded.

- July 14, 2003: Islamic militants in Baghdad detonated a bomb outside a police station, killing one officer.

- July 16, 2003: In Baghdad, Shi'ite Muslims supported by Iranian clerics opened fire on the Iranian opposition Mujahideen-e Khalq Organization (People's Warriors) headquarters. U.S. troops surrounded the building and blocked further gunfire after two People's Warriors were wounded.

The notion of Americans defending Muslims ensconced on the State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations is a bit duplicitous. The MEK had played a major role in orchestrating terrorist acts that contributed to the overthrow the Shah of Iran. The MEK is known to have orchestrated the murder of American civilians as well as the assassinations of U.S. military personnel. They also played an important role in the takeover of the United States Embassy in Tehran in 1979.

After the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran, however the popularity of the MEG waned. Iran became an Islamic theocracy, so the Marxist leanings of the Muslim People's Warriors caused these terrorists to fall out of favor with the fundamentalist clerics. While they were coddled by the French for a while, French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac ultimately traded their expulsion for some French hostages being held in Tehran. It was then that the MEG moved to Baghdad and used their terrorist training to help the socialist Ba'ath party in Iraq murder Kurds.

Returning to Baghdad in July 2003, we find that after the Mahdi Militia of Imam Sadr witnessed the Americans defending the Marxist Muslim organization, the following day the Shi'ite gunmen returned, blasting the Khalq Mujahideen. They must have figured that they were in the bonus round. If they missed Shi'ite Jihadists they were sure to bag an Infidel. And sure enough, the two Marxist Muslim People's Mujahideen who were injured in the gunfight were evacuated by American troops to a U.S. military hospital.

July 16, 2003: In Haditha, Iraq, Muslim militants assassinated the U.S.-backed mayor and one of his sons. Muhammad Nayel al-Jughaify was shot driving home from his office. His car was then set on fire. He was accused of having "cooperated with the Crusaders."

- July 17, 2003: In Abu Ghraib, Iraq, an IED exploded as a 50 truck convoy traveled along the 500 mile highway from Jordan. One U.S. soldier was killed and three were wounded. The reason for the large and long overland shipment was that RPG attacks had closed the Baghdad Airport.

- July 22, 2003: It's hard to care when caregivers are murdered by those they are caring for. In Hila, Iraq, a Red Cross aid worker was shot and killed when his car, marked with the Red Cross emblem came under fire south of Baghdad. It was the second attack on a aid worker in the area in as many days.

- July 24, 2003: A bomb exploded on a railway line between Baghdad and Mosul right in front of a train. The same thing occurred on a different line two days later.

- July 27, 2003: Fundamentalist Muslims are opposed to alcohol so today Iraqis wounded five civilians in Basra when they fired rocket-propelled grenades into a liquor store - something that was legal under Saddam Hussein's secular regime. As one of a thousand reasons to view Islam as absurd, alcohol consumption is condemned on earth and yet the rivers of the Islamic paradise flow with wine.

- July 29, 2003: Iraqis set an oil pipeline outside Basra on fire using rocket-propelled grenades.

- August 2003: The number of Americans wounded in Iraq climbed to above 1,000 with the addition of 181 combat-related casualties in the month of August. In addition, 45 coalition soldiers would die Iraq bringing the total to 359 (inclusive of the 13 prewar staging accidents attributable to Iraq). The ratio between mishaps and Muslims was consistent with the prior month. Friendly fire and non combat related accidents had claimed another 23 lives.

The ratio was now: Mistakes @ 212 of 359 or 59%. Muslims @ 142 of 359, or 40%. Saddam Hussein's regime had claimed 1% of the total.

To begin, four Americans died in Afghanistan. David Tapper, 32, was killed by Muslim militants in Orgun. Mike Lane, 34, was fatally injured in a fall during a night assault in Zabul. The Taliban killed Chad Fuller, 24, and Adam Thomas, 21, in Shkin on the last day of the month.

Jim Lambert, 22, was killed by a stray bullet that was fired in celebration, of what we do not know. But since it was fired in Baghdad, it was probably something ignoble.

Justin Hebert, 20, killed when Muslims fired a RPG into his Humvee. Dave Loyd, 44, died of severe chest pain while on duty. Farao Letufuga, 20, died in a fall while on guard duty.

August 6th claimed four Americans. Leonard Simmons, 33, died after suffering a seizure in Mosul, Iraq. Brian Hellerman, 35, and Kile Gilbert, 20, were killed when an Iraqi civilian vehicle was used to ambush their unit in Baghdad. Zef Colunga, 20, died from a non-combat illness contracted in Iraq.

Duane Longstreth, 19, died from non-combat-related injuries in Baghdad on the 7th. Brandon Ramsey, 21, killed when his vehicle rolled over during a convoy operation as he chased a suspicious civilian vehicle in Tallil, Iraq.

Matthew Bush, 20, died in his sleep at Camp Caldwell, Iraq. The following evening, Levi Kinchen, 21, died the same way. Three days later, Rich Eaton, 37, died in his sleep in Ramadi, Iraq.

Floyd Knighten, 55, died from heat stress while riding in a convoy in Diwaniya, Iraq. David Kirchhoff, 31, also died from heat stroke he suffered while serving in Iraq. Hell is especially hot in August. Heat may have taken Anthony Sherman's life as well. The 43-year-old Reservist was found unconscious in Camp Arifjan.

David Perry, 36, was killed when a suspicious package he was inspecting exploded in Baquba, Iraq.

The Muslims George Bush claimed to be liberating murdered Taft Williams, 29, killing him with a roadside bomb in Ramadi on the 12th. A traffic accident claimed Daniel Parker's life. He was just 18. The teenager was fatally injured when he was thrown from his vehicle after the driver swerved to avoid an oncoming car in Mosul, Iraq.

Tim Brown, 21, lost his life to a roadside bomb in Taji. Dave Hull, 23, would also lose his life to a roadside bomb - this one outside the Baghdad Airport. A roadside explosive device took Steve White's life in Tikrit the following day. Steve, 29, died of the injuries he received when his M113 armored personnel carrier hit an antitank mine. And what, prey tell was an antitank mine doing in a city street?

On August 13th, Jason Smith, 32, of Scotland died of a non-combat cause in southern Iraq. Preben Pederson was shot by friendly fire while on patrol in Madinah, Iraq. He was from Nordjylland, Denmark.

David Jones, 29, was killed when the nice people of Basra, Iraq decided that Allah wanted them to bomb an ambulance. Colin Wall, 34, Drewi Pritchard, 35, and Matthew Titchener, 32, died several days later from injuries suffered in the senseless blast. All four were Royal Military Police from England.

Craig Ivory, 26, died of a medical non-combat cause. He was injured in Kuwait on the 12th but died in Germany on the 17th. Anthony Sherman, 43, was found unconscious and later died after attempts to resuscitate him failed.

Martin Oar, 57, a sailor in the Spanish Navy, was killed by a suicide bomber outside of the UN headquarters in Baghdad.

Ken Harris, 23, was fatally injured in a vehicle accident. Muslims get an assist, however, because they were perpetrating an armed ambush in Diwaniya at the time.

On August 20th a roadside bomb built, planted, and detonated by a man poisoned by Muhammad's religion took the life of Bobby Franklin, 38, of the North Carolina National Guard in Baghdad.

Kylan Juffman, 31, was killed when a Muslim militant shot him from his SUV as traffic slowed in Hilla, Iraq. The same day, Mike Adams, 20, lost his life to friendly fire. A bullet ricocheted during a small-arms fire exercise and started a fire which ultimately killed him.

Friendly fire in Baghdad took Steve Scott's life. He was just 21. The same day, Vorn Mack, a teenager from South Carolina, died trying to swim in the Euphrates River near the Haditha Dam.

A non-hostile gunshot wound ended Pfc. Pablo Manzano's life at 19. Later that day, Ron Allen, 22, would die of injuries sustained in a vehicle accident near Balad.

Darryl Dent, 21, was killed by a roadside bomb as his convoy was passing through Ramadi. What so horrible about this is the fact that buried and camouflaged roadside bombs are not only the most prolific killers of Americans in Iraq, killing one in four troops, they are a civilian weapon that takes considerable time and exposure to deploy. There is no way for a Muslim to hide such a device in the street without most of their neighbors knowing about it.

The following day, a roadside bomb killed Rafael Navea, 34, in Fallujah. Also on the 27th, such a device was used to murder Greg Belanger in Hallia. He was a 24-year-old Reservist from Rhode Island.

Since roadside bombs detonated by Iraqi civilians had now become the leading killer of American soldiers, the Department of Defense needed a new term to describe them, one that would give the civilian device a military spin. Therefore, Sgt. Gregory Al Belanger, 24, 325th Military Intelligence Battalion, U.S. Army Reserves, from Narragansett, Rhode Island became the first American soldier to expressly die "of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device struck his vehicle (military spin for unarmored Humvee) in Hallia, Iraq, on August 27, 2003."

In what was now an intolerable onslaught, Russ Beeston, 26, and Mark Lawton, 41, were killed when their convoys were hit by rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire. The first was in Amarah, Iraq. The second civilian attack took place north of As Suaydat, Iraq. The British press said: "Fusilier Russell Beenston was killed after an army convoy was confronted by two mobs of Iraqi civilians and a firefight began at Ali As Sharqi. Mark Lawton's was a 41-year-old Reservist from Colorado deployed in Iraq to drive a convoy vehicle.

On the last day of the month, Sean Cataudella, 28, died when his Humvee hit an embankment and rolled into a canal in Baquba, Iraq.

- August 1, 2003: In Iraq, Muslims set an oil pipeline ablaze near Baiji.

- August 2, 2003: If you will recall, prior to the American invasion to depose the secular regime of Saddam Hussein, there was one terrorist assault every other month in Iraq. With the Islamic clerics empowered, there was now one every other day. And even that would seem mild compared with what was to come. Within a year Muslims would perpetrate a terrorist assault on their own people at the rate of one every two to three hours.

For example, a large car bomb exploded at the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad today, killing 19 and injuring over 50 others. Authorities speculated that it was the work of Ansar al-Islam.

- August 5, 2003: In Iraq, an American civilian contractor was killed by a remote-controlled roadside bomb in Tikrit. He was simply trying to deliver mail to U.S. forces in the area and was being escorted by a military convoy at the time.

- August 7, 2003: A car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 19 people and wounding 65. Most of the victims were apparently Iraqis, including five police officers. No group claimed responsibility. It was just Muslims killing Muslims.

- August 7, 2003: In Iraq, a massive car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad killing 17 people and wounding 60. The bomb was deployed in a minibus and detonated remotely.

- August 19, 2003: A truck loaded with Iraqi weapons exploded outside the United Nations Headquarters and Baghdad's Canal Hotel. A hospital across the street was also heavily damaged. The 23 dead included UN Representative Sergio Viera de Mello. More than 100 were wounded. As the U.N. was pulling out of Iraq, Americans were pouring in.

The American authorities speculated as to whether the bomber was a Ba'ath Party loyalist, an Iraqi insurgent, or a foreign Islamic militant. Later, the Brigades of the Martyr Abu Hafz al-Masri claimed responsibility. Not knowing who they were, the authorities claimed they had ties to al-Qaeda rather than Islam. But during this time, al-Qaeda had no presence in Iraq. That would come later. Remember, Osama bin Laden hated Saddam Hussein and wanted Saudi approval to fight the Iraqi secular regime as he had fought the Soviets.

Early on, every politician and news reporter was saying that Saddam Hussein loyalists were the ones perpetrating the acts of terrorism. But the Ba'ath Party never fought. In Desert Storm the Republican Guards surrendered so quickly the war lasted a couple of days. So when it became obvious that the terrorists were not secularists but instead sectarian, the media's talking heads started calling the terrorists "insurgents," which was the opposite of what they actually were. It was almost as if they were reading off the same teleprompter. America had developed an allergy to the truth. An "insurgent" is someone who rebels against authority. No one relies more on authority than a suicide bomber. The problem is, Americans don't know who the authority is in Iraq. That is why the U.S. has sacrificed blood and coin to make the situation worse, not better.

- August 19, 2003: America's ignorant and immoral war in Iraq had unleashed hell's fury. Today, a cement truck packed with explosives was detonated outside the offices of the United Nations envoy in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, killing him and twenty-one others. The blast devastated the United Nation's headquarters, wounding 150 people. Fifteen of those who were killed were on the UN's staff.

In the days after the attack, the United Nations announced that it was evacuating most of its 350 representatives from the country. The UN committee appointed by Secretary General Kofi Annan said that the UN building in Baghdad was extremely vulnerable to attack due to security breaches, inadequate security analysis, and poor management. They were pointing their finger directly in the face of George W. Bush.

- August 28, 2003: In Baghdad, Muslim gunmen attacked Ahmad Chalabi's home. He was the leader of the Iraqi National Council. An unknown number of guards and militants were killed in the firefight.

- August 28, 2003: Disaster struck in Iraq today. In religious infighting, more than 125 Shi'ite civilians were killed and 300 more were injured in a car bomb attack outside a mosque in Najaf just after prayers. Included in the fatalities was Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim, one of four leading Shia clerics in Iraq. His nephew, Shi'ite cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Saeed al-Hakim had survived a bomb attack at his office five days earlier. It was the start of the Shi'ite-Sunni civil war.

Al-Hakim had been the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) since its establishment in 1982. The SCIRI had just agreed to work with the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi Governing Council which may have led Sunnis to kill him.

The Qur'an tells good Muslims to kill bad Muslims. The Qur'an's 9th surah defines a good Muslim as a jihadist who fights in Allah's cause. Allah then defines a bad Muslim as a peaceful person who does not fight with their wealth and lives for world Islamic domination. The Islamic god calls these peaceful Muslims hypocrites and tells good Muslim jihadists to kill them so that he can torture them in hell.

If we were to use the Qur'an and recent history as our gauge, there is no more dangerous myth than the notion that there is such a thing as moderate Islam. What is called "radical Islam" is actually the opposite. Islamic terrorists are fundamentalists. More clearly stated: all good Muslims are terrorists.

Authorities arrested four non-Iraqi Sunni Arabs who confessed to the bombing. A Libyan man with links to Tawhid and Jihad, supposedly admitted to playing a role. Also arrested, albeit much later, was Sami Muhammad Ali Said Jaaf, a lieutenant of Abu Musab Zarqawi. He was taken into custody in January 2005. Jaaf, who was an expert bomb maker, acknowledged building over thirty suicide bombs used in Iraq, including this one.

- August 30, 2003: In Mosul, Iraq, six people were injured in an attack on the al-Hamra cinema. These, rather crude Muslims threw two concrete blocks into the cinema in order to scare people out. When they rushed into the street, the Islamic militants threw a grenade into the crowd. There had been rumors that the theater had been showing unauthorized and un-Islamic movies.

- September 2003: A total of 31 American soldiers lost their lives in Iraq. Another 227 were wounded. Mishaps accounted for 16 deaths while Muslims murdered 15 Americans.

With the mistaken war now six months old, mistakes had cost the coalition 228 lives or 59% of the 390 sacrificed in the invasion. Muslim civilians, the people the troops had gone to liberate, had murdered 157 soldiers - causing 40% of the fatalities. Saddam Hussein's regime, the original enemy, had claimed 5 lives, scarcely 1% of those lost.

The 16 who died from mishaps included: Cameron Sarno, 43 (changing a tire); Chris Sisson, 20 (rough helicopter landing); Bruce Brown 32 (car accident); Jarrett Thompson 27 (driving accident); Henry Ybarra, 32 (changing a tire which exploded) in Balad; Alyssa Peterson, 27 (non-combat weapons discharge); Foster Pinkston, 47 (illness); Brian Faunce, 28 (electrocuted by the low-hanging power line he was clearing); Paul Sturino, 21 (non-hostile gunshot wound); John Nightingale, 32 (non-hostile gunshot wound); Mike Andrade, 28 (a 5-ton supply truck ran into his Humvee); Bob Rooney, 43 (struck by a forklift); Darrin Potter, 24 (overturned vehicle fell into a canal); Joe Baddick, 26 (drown trying to rescue Potter); and Dustin McGaugh, 20 (non-hostile gunshot wound).

Yurly Koydan, 32, was the only non-American coalition casualty. The Ukrainian died as the result of overturning his reconnaissance vehicle.

The 7 murdered by Muslims detonating homemade bombs included: Joe Camara, 40 in Baghdad; Charles Caldwell, 38 in Baghdad; Joe Robsky, 31 (trying to disarm an IED) in Baghdad; Trevor Blumberg, 22, in Baghdad; Fred Miller, 27 in Ar Ramadi; and Kyle Thomas, 23 in Tikrit; Bob Lucero, 34 in Tikrit.

The two Americans murdered by Muslims who ambushed their supply convoy were: Ryan Carlock, 25 in Baghdad and Chris Cutchall, 30 in Baghdad;

The four American soldiers killed by Muslims shooting rifles or RPGs as they were walking or driving by were: Kevin Kimmerly, 31 (RPG); James Wright, 27 (AK-47s and RPGs) in Tikrit ambush; Tony Thompson, 26 (AK-47s and RPGs) in Tikrit ambush; Rich Arriaga, 20 (AK-47s and RPGs) in Tikrit ambush;

The two Americans murdered by Muslims during house-to-house weapon searches were: Kevin Morehead, 33 and Bill Bennett, 35, both in Ramadi;

Lunsford Brown was killed when Muslims fired a mortar into the Abu Ghurayb prison in Baghdad.

Two Americans were killed in Afghanistan. They were Pfc. Kristan Parker, 23, who died of non-combat related causes in As Sayliyah, and Pfc. Evan O'Neil, 19, who lost his life in a firefight with Muslims in Shkin. Both fatalities occurred on the 29th.

- September 2, 2003: In Iraq, a car bomb exploded near the headquarters of the Rasafa Police Station in Baghdad. Then policemen were wounded.

- September 2, 2003: In Baghdad, Sayyed Ali al-Waadi al-Musawi, a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric was attacked by several Sunni gunmen as he walked to the Kadhimiya Shrine to pray. In a coordinated attack, two assailants fired at Musawi from the roof of a nearby hotel, three fired from a minibus and two from a sedan. Musawi's bodyguards returned fire, injuring one of the attackers.

- September 3, 2003: An American civilian affiliated with Halliburton was shot and killed in Baghdad while driving with a military escort. He was the second person associated with the firm to die in a terrorist attack in a month.

- September 3, 2003: The al-Zahur police station in Mosul, Iraq came under attack for the third time in a month. Three rocket-propelled grenades were fired.

- September 7, 2003: In Iraq, the headquarters of the Shi'ite Islamic al-Dawa party in Basra was attacked by gunman wielding assault rifles.

- September 8, 2003: In Afghanistan, Muslim militants suspected to be sympathetic to the Taliban shot and killed four Afghans working for a Danish aid organization. Those trying to improve the lives of Afghanis were killed after Muslims ambushed their vehicle and tied them up.

- September 8, 2003: In Iraq another pipeline was destroyed.

- September 17, 2003: Muslim militants in Iraq ambushed Tahseen Begh, the leader of a Kurdish sect, injuring him outside of Mosul.

- September 18, 2003: In Afghanistan, Muslims fired four rockets at construction workers on the Kabul-Kandahar highway. But the bigger story here is why the highway was being constructed in the first place. For that story, please turn to the "Pipeline to 9/11" appendix of the Islamic Terrorism Timeline.

The same day 20 Afghanis were injured when Islamic gunmen ambushed a convoy of UN aid workers and journalists in the eastern province of Paktia. All five vehicles were destroyed and the UN suspended all projects in the area.

Also on the 18th, four people were murdered when a car bomb exploded in front of the home of a high-ranking police officer in Ghazni. Three of his bodyguards and a passerby were among those killed.

September 21, 2003: Ten Iraqi civilians were wounded in a grenade attack on store selling pornographic videos near Mosul.

The same day three Iraqi policemen were wounded when militants tossed hand grenades at them in their Basra station.

- September 22, 2003: A second suicide car bomb attack on the UN Headquarters in Baghdad killed a security guard and wounded 19 others. The bomb maker for Tawhid and Jihad confessed to providing the IED.

- September 23, 2003: Muslim militants in Iraq killed three and wounded 20 in a Mosul bombing. Once again the target was a cinema alleged to be showing pornographic films. The owner acknowledged having received warnings from the local mosque but he had ignored them.

- September 25, 2003: In Iraq, Islamic gunmen shot and wounded a member of Iraq's Governing Council by ambushing her convoy. Their plan was clearly to assassinate an official of the US-backed council. Akila al-Hashimi was shot three times and died of her injuries five days later. Four others, two of her brothers and two bodyguards were wounded in the attack. Police stated that at least five men in a truck sprayed Hashimi's convoy with Kalashnikov fire.

- September 26, 2003: In Iraq, a bomb was detonated outside the Aike Hotel in Baghdad which was being used by NBC. A Somali guard and a Canadian soundman were injured.

- October 2003: A total of 44 Americans lost their lives in Bush's "war on terrorism" in Iraq this month. The death toll for soldiers alone now stood at 434. Twelve lives were lost to accidents and thirty-two to Muslims - most of them by way of roadside bombs. It was becoming clear that Muslims were becoming more lethal by the day, killing significantly more Americans than mistakes for the first time. As a consequence of IEDs, the number of American soldiers wounded in Iraq nearly doubled in October to 413, bringing the total casualties to 1,312.

Fatalities which can help Americans understand why they shouldn't be in Iraq include: Jose Gomez, 34, who was shot at close range by a man dressed as a Shiite Muslim cleric. The imam knocked on the door of Jose's Baghdad residence early in the morning and shot him when he opened it.

Joe Bellavia, 28, of Wakefield, Mass, Sean Grilley, 24, of San Bernadino, California, and Kim Orlando, 43, of Nashville, Tennessee, were killed when they were attempting to negotiate with a group of armed civilians congregating outside of a mosque in Karbala after curfew. The Iraqi Muslims opened fire and murdered all three Americans. This is the consequence of misidentifying the enemy. A bad man lied and these good men died.

Simeon Hunte, 23, was murdered in cold blood in Khadra when an Iraqi citizen approached him and then shot him at pointblank range.

Analaura Gutierrez, 21, was murdered when the supply convoy she was in was stopped by a roadside bomb and then hit by repeated RPG fire in Tikrit. James Blankenbecker, 40, was murdered when the supply convoy she was in was stopped by a roadside bomb and then hit by repeated RPG fire in Samarra. Richard Torres, 25, was murdered by Muslims when the supply convoy he was in was blown up by a roadside bomb in Baghdad. Kerry Scott, 21, was murdered by Muslims when his convoy was blown up by a roadside bomb in Iskandariyah. Steve Wyatt, 19, was murdered by Muslims when they decided Allah wanted them to blow up and then shoot into an American supply convoy as it passed through Balad. Don Wheeler, 22, was murdered by Muslims when his supply convoy was hit by an RPG while searching for roadside bombs in Tikrit. Joe Norquist, 26, was murdered by Muslims when the supply convoy he was in was attacked with small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades in Baquba.

Spencer Karol, 20, when Allah commanded Muslims to detonate an explosive device under his Humvee in Ramadi. Mike Williams, 46, died the same way but in Baghdad two weeks later. Chris Swisher, 26, and Sean Silva were murdered by Islam when their unit was ambushed by civilians using small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad. James Pirtle, 18, was murdered by an Iraqi civilian who shot an RPG into his Bradley Fighting Vehicle in Assadah.

Paul Johnson, 29, was murdered by Muslims when his vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb and then attacked with small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades in the religious cesspool of Fallujah.

John Hart, 20, of Bedford Mass and David Bernstein, 24, of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania were murdered by those who believe Allah is God. Their patrol was ambushed by Iraqi civilians using machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in Taza, Iraq. During the attack, their Humvee overturned and crashed into a sand berm when the driver, Joshua Sams lost control after it sustained a direct hit from a rocket-propelled grenade. The exploding grenade killed John Hart. Although mortally wounded by a gunshot to his leg, Bernstein tried to move the vehicle off of Sams' arm which was trapped under the wreckage. After doing so he bled to death. Bernstein graduated fifth in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2001.

- October 8, 2003: Islam thrives in chaos. That is why Iraqi Muslims murdered two policemen - killing them with an RPG as they stood at a Kirkuk checkpoint.

- October 9, 2003: Iraqi militants shot and assassinated a Spanish military attaché in Baghdad. When Jose Gomez opened the front door of his home, gunmen standing outside murdered him a pointblank range. Spain would later withdraw from Iraq following a massive terrorist attack on their home soil.

The same day a suicide car bomber crashed through a checkpoint outside Iraqi police station in Baghdad's Shi'ite enclave of Sadr City. The blast killed 8 and wounded 40. The attack was timed to coincide with the day Iraqis showed up to collect their paychecks from Uncle Sam.

And to make certain that Americans, rather than Iraqis, would foot the bill, Muslims destroyed another oil pipeline, this one with grenades near Kirkuk.

- October 9, 2003: Two Israelis and a Palestinian were wounded by a suicide bomber who blew himself up in the middle of a public reception area where Palestinians apply for permits to cross checkpoints on humanitarian grounds. Idiotically, Fatah's sl-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed credit, identifying the moronic and murderous Muslim as Ahmed Safadi, an 18-year-old student.

- October 11, 2003: In Iraq today, two civilians were killed and foru were wounded in attacks on the North Oil Company in Kirkuk. And for good measure, the pipeline was bombed again as was a truck the firm's employees were boarding.

- October 12, 2003: Suspected Taliban militants executed seven Afghani policemen after assaulting a government building in southeastern Afghanistan. A large contingent of 150 Taliban guerillas reportedly came from one of the many villages stilled controlled by Taliban supporters. As the Taliban attackers retreated, they took five policemen hostage. They were later found in the mountains, each with a single bullet to the head. The attack was clearly related to the October 11th escape from prison of a number of Taliban leaders jailed in Kandahar.

- October 12, 2003: Two suicide car bombs exploded outside the Baghdad Hotel, which housed U.S. officials. Eight were killed and 42 were wounded. Among the wounded were three Americans. U.S. security personnel kept the car bombers from actually reaching the hotel or the carnage would have been much greater.

Suicide bombings in Iraq were becoming almost as common as Muslims. I suppose there was a connection. Tawhid and Jihad earned bonus points with Allah for having perpetrated the senseless murders.

- October 12, 2003: An Iraqi suicide bomber foiled his own mission when he accidentally blew himself up before he reached his intended target - a Kirkuk police station. In addition to himself, he wounded to bystanders.

- October 13, 2003: In Muqdadiyah, Iraq, Abdullah al-Juburi, the governor of the Diyala province, was the victim of a roadside bomb. Two policemen who traveled with the governor and a passer-by were injured in the blast.

- October 14, 2003: In Baghdad, Iraq, a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives near the Turkish Embassy wounding two staff members. The two injured included one Turkish citizen and one Iraqi.

- October 16, 2003: An Iraqi suicide bomber was gunned down by security agents before he could blow up the Interrior Ministry building in Irbil. The Muslim was in a car carrying more than 250 pounds of TNT when he attempted to drive through the checkpoints.

- October 26, 2003: Two gunmen wrongly "believed" to be Ba'ath Party loyalists assassinated Faris Abdul Razaq al-Assam, one of three deputy mayors of Baghdad. U.S. officials did not announce al-Assam's death until October 28.

- October 26, 2003: A rocket fired by Muslims killed one U.S. Army officer and wounded 17, including 11 Americans, at the al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, now the head of the World Bank, who was at the hotel at the time, was not injured, unfortunately. After visiting those who were wounded as a result of his failed policies, he said, "They're not going to scare us away; we're not giving up on this job." After saying this, Wolfowitz hopped on his chartered jet and flew out of the country. George W. Bush subsequently promoted Wolfowitz to the head of the World Bank.

Wolfowitz quote in Baghdad was identical to what politicians like him said after the first one-thousand American casualties in Vietnam. They were still saying it a month before they "gave up on that job," but not before their failed policies had caused 55,000 American boys to lose their lived in a failed cause. Because of men like Wolfowitz, the U.S. Army officer who died this day became one of 3,000 to succumb to the terrorist dogma of Islam in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 17 wounded Americans were the first of 20,000 who would be punctured, burned, and mutilated by the devilish doctrine U.S. politicians were empowering.

Yes, I wish that Paul Wolfowitz had been wounded instead of one of his victims - the young Americans he had sent into harm's way. If justice were to prevail, the lives of Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Chaney, and Bush would be exchanged for those Americans they caused to be killed to satiate their political egos.

- October 27, 2003: A series of six suicide car bombings in Baghdad killed at least 35 people and wounded 230 more. One of those murdered by Islam was an American soldier. Six U.S. troops were injured in the blasts. It was the first day of Ramadan.

Four attacks were directed at Iraqi police stations. The fifth and most destructive was directed at the International Committee of the Red Cross headquarters, where 12 people were killed.

A sixth attack was foiled when a car bomb failed to explode and the bomber was wounded and captured by police. U.S. and Iraqi officials suspected that foreign terrorists were involved because the unsuccessful bomber said he was a Syrian and carried a Syrian passport. He was also a Muslim and that was all that really mattered. Defiant, the failed bomber shouted "Death to the Collaborators" along with a salvo of "Allahu Akbars.".

Islam has a virtual monopoly on terrorism and suicide bombing is its signature ploy. Were there is an explosive person, bag, car, or truck bomb in the midst of civilians you can be assured that Islam was in the midst of the bomber.

A dogma, religious or political, that manufactures 95% of the world's terrorists cannot be tolerated. Rather than empowering Islam in Iraq, America and the West should have been condemning the terrorist manifesto. If good, jihadist Muslims represent 20% of those who claim Islam as their religion, Muhammad and Allah have made them 2500% more vicious and lethal than the rest of us.

The facts are: nearly all terrorists are Muslims and all good Muslims are terrorists.

- October 29, 2003: An Iraqi Muslim suicide bomber corrupted by Islam blew himself up outside of a Fallujah police station, killing five.

- October 30, 2003: In Afghanistan, Taliban fighters kidnapped a Turkish engineer working on the construction of the Kabul-Kandahar road. His driver was released the next morning, but the engineer was not. Following the kidnapping, the Taliban in a letter demanded the release of six of their members held by the U.S. Shortly thereafter, they rescinded their 48-hour deadline following talks with the Turkish Embassy in Afghanistan.

Then in a press conference they demanded the release of 250 Taliban prisoners held by the Karzai government in exchange for the Turkish engineer's life. At this time they also claimed they had kidnapped the engineer because he was from a country that allied itself with the U.S.

While the Taliban released the engineer on November 30, we will never know what exchange deal made.

- October, 2003: This was a deadly time for Americans and Canadians in Afghanistan. Seven soldiers lost their lives protecting the crude jihadist prime minister and his Islamic government. There names were: Bob Short, 42, (IED on the outskirts of Kabul); Chris Beerenfenger, 29, (IED on the outskirts of Kabul); Paul Kimbrough, 44, (non-combat related injury); Darrell Jones, 22, (non-combat related injury); Glenn Mueller, 32, (CIA contractor killed in a Shkin ambush); Bill Carlson, 43, (CIA contractor killed in a Shkin ambush); and Paul Sweeney, 32, (killed in a Musa Qula ambush).

- November, 2003: Twice as many American and Coalition troops were murdered in Iraq this month than any of the six previous months. The trend we witnessed in October with Muslims becoming more effective with IEDs was now epidemic. And once again, Muslims killed far more Americans than mishaps in November.

Sharing the burden, 82 of the 110 deaths in November were U.S. soldiers. There were 336 American servicemen and women wounded in Iraq this month.

Here is how they died:

IEDs claimed 35 lives: Maurice Johnson, 21 (Mosul); Josh Hurley, 24 (Mosul); Ben Colgan, 30 (Baghdad); Ray Johnson (Tikrit), 20; Francisco Martinez, 28 (Baghdad); James Wolf, 21 (Mosul); James Chance, 25 (Husaybah); Mark Vasquez, 35 (Fallujah); Kurt Frosheiser, 22 (Baghdad); Gary Collins, 32 (Fallujah); Marlon Jackson, 25 (Taji); Genaro Acosta, 26 (Taji); Bob Wise, 21, (Baghdad); Alfonso Trincone, 44, (Nasiriyah); Marshall Ragazzi, 39, (Nasiriyah); Pietro Petrucci, 22, (Nasiriyah); Silvio Olla, 35, (Nasiriyah); Filippo Merlino, 40, (Nasiriyah); Orazio Majorana, 29, (Nasiriyah); Domenico Intravaia, 46, (Nasiriyah); Ivan Ghitti, 30, (Nasiriyah); Daniele Ghoine, 30, (Nasiriyah); Enzo Fregosi, 56, (Nasiriyah); Andrea Filippa, 33, (Nasiriyah); Emanuele Ferraro, 28, (Nasiriyah); Giuseppe Coletta, 38, (Nasiriyah); Giovanni Cavallaro, 47, (Nasiriyah); Alessandro Carrisi, 23, (Nasiriyah); Massimiliano, 40, (Nasiriyah); Joe Minucci, 23, (Samara); Irving Medina, 22, (Baghdad); Alexander Coulter, 35 (Tikrit); George Wood, 33, (Baquba); Joe Lister, 22, (Ar Ramadi); and Eddie Menyweather, 35, (Baquba).

Ambushes claimed 17 lives: Jose Rivera, 34 (RPG in Mumuhdyah); Hieronim Kupczyk, 44 (mortar in Mussabiyah); Morgan Kennon, 23 (RPG in Mosul); Nick Tomko, 34 (small arms in Baghdad); Dale Panchot, 26 (sniper in Galad); Jerry Wilson, 45, (small arms in Mosul); Rel Ravago, 21, (small arms in Mosul); Ariel Rico, 25, (mortar in Mosul); Luis Tarazona, 36, (small arms in Mahmudiyah); Alfonso Calvo, 41, (small arms in Mahmudiyah); Aaron Sissel, 22, (small arms in Haditha); Jose Perez, 41, (small arms in Mahmudiyah); Jose Olivera, 49, (small arms in Mahmudiyah); Albert Gonzalez, 43, (small arms in Mahmudiyah); Jose Egea, 42, (small arms in Mahmudiyah); Steve Bertolino, 40, (RPG in Haditha); and Carlos Ollero, 36, (small arms in Mahmudiyah).

Helicopters Being Shot Down claimed 22 lives: Joe Wilson, 30; Paul Belazquez, 29; Frank Vega, 20; Bruce Smith, 41; Brian Slavenas, 30; Joel Perez, 25; Ross Pennanen, 36; Brian Penisten, 28; Keelan Moss, 23; Karina Lau, 20; Darius Jennings, 22; Paul Fisher, 39; Anthony D'Agostino, 20; Steven Conover,21; Ernest Bucklew, 33; and Daniel Bader, 28 (all killed as a result of a missile fired by the Shi'ite Imam al-Sadr's Mahdi Militia in Fallujah into their CH-47 Chinook). Sharon Swartworth, 43; Benedict Smith, 29; Scott Rose, 30; Paul Neff, 30; Kyran Kennedy, 43; and Cornell Gilmore, 45 (all killed when a Muslim militant fired an RPG at their UH-60 Black Hawk in Tikrit).

Accidents claimed 33 lives: Robert Benson, 20 (gunshot); Ryan Thomas, 18 (traffic); Linda Jimenez 39 (fall); Nate Bailey, 46 (gunshot); Jim Shull, 32, (gunshot); Nathan Dalley, 27 (gunshot); Oleksii Bondarnenko, 36 (suicide); Scott Tyrrell (ammunition combustion); Gary Coleman, 24 (vehicle rolled into canal); Robert Roberts, 21 (collision with tank); Damian Bushart, 22, (collision with tank); Darrell Smith, 28 (vehicle rolled into a river); (Chris Nason, 39, (vehicle accident); David Goldberg, 20, (non-combat injury); and Thomas Sweet, 23 (gunshot). Jeremy Wolfe, 27; Joey Whitener, 19; Gene Uhl, 21; John Sulivan, 26; Scott Saboe, 33; John Russell, 26; Pierre Piche, 26; Erik Kesterson, 29; Damian Heidelberg, 21, Sheldon Eagle, 21; Tim Hayslett, 26; Warren Hansen, 36; Richard Hafer, 21; Bill Dusenbery, 30; Jeremiah Digiovanni, 21; Kelly Bolor, 37; Ryan Baker, 24; and Mike Acklin, 25 (were all killed in a mid-air Black Hawk helicopter collision over Mosul).

There were 8 Coalition deaths in Afghanistan: Mihail Samuila, 35, (Spin Boldak ambush); Iosif Fogorasi, 33, (Spin Boldak ambush); Jay Blessing, 23, (IED in Asadabad); Howard Walters, 33; Thomas Walkup, 25; Steve Plumhoff, 33; Bill Kerwood, 37; and Phillip Albert, 41 (all died in a MH-53M Pave Low helicopter accident).

- November 4, 2003: In Iraq, militant Muslims assassinated a judge in Mosul.

- November 7, 2003: In Iraq, the Sheikh Fathi police station was damaged in a mortar attack near Mosul when four rounds were fired.

- November 10, 2003: In Iraq, the director of Mosul's Northern Oil Company, Muhammad Zebari, was shot outside his home. He was seriously injured and his son was killed.

- November 12, 2003: In Allah's hell hole, also known as Iraq, an Islamic suicide truck bomber destroyed the Italian military police headquarters in Nasiriyah, killing 18 Italians and 11 Iraqis. This misguided and indoctrinated soul left 100 more broken bodies in his wake.

- November 16, 2003: In Afghanistan, A French woman working for the UN's refugee agency was shot and killed by Taliban militants riding on motorcycles in Ghazni. The French woman's driver was injured. The killing follows a car bomb attack that took place on November 11 on the UN's compound in Kandahar.

Two Taliban members were arrested in connection with the shooting. The Taliban initially denied any role in the attack by saying they were not interested in killing aid workers, only in kidnapping them in exchange for prisoner release. Then later they changed their mind and said, "Yes our mujahideen were involved in killing that Christian woman." The UN began pulling foreign staff out of southern and eastern Afghanistan following this incident because of the dramatic increase in attacks on foreign aid workers in recent months.

- November 17, 2003: There is this myth that America liberated Afghanistan and made the country safe for democracy. But it's completely untrue. The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is now under oppressive Sharia Law and the borders of the "Islamic Republic" only extend to the city limits of Kabul. A massive bomb explosion rocked Kandahar City today as evidence.

- November 18, 2003: In Iraq, an explosive device was detonated in a television broadcasting vehicle belonging to the Turkish news organization, Ihlas News Agency.

- November 19, 2003: Muslims fired automatic weapons into the Japanese Embassy in Baghdad.

- November 20, 2003: A suicide car bombing in Kirkuk, Iraq killed five. The target appeared to be the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. PUK officials suspected the Ansar al-Islam group, which was said to have sheltered fugitive Taliban and al-Qaeda members after the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan. However, the Iraqi Ansar al-Sunnah organization claimed credit for the attack - a scheme which required over 400 pounds of explosives.

This terrorist organization's name speaks volumes. It means "Helpers and Friends of the Example." And that example is of course Muhammad's. According to the oldest Sunnah source, the only biography written about Islam's lone prophet within 200 years of his death, Muhammad was a pedophile, incestuous, adulterous, a rapist, a thief, a liar, an assassin, a slave trader, mass murderer, and ruthless terrorist. Virtually nothing redeeming is said about him in his own scriptures - the Sunnah and Qur'an. Muhammad's Sunnah legacy is terror and his Qur'an orders Muslims to fight and kill non-Muslims and peaceful hypocritical apostate Muslims until the entire would submits to Allah and Islam. So all those who are Friends of the Sunnah are bad people - they are terrorists.

Based upon its name, we should not be surprised that Ansar al-Sunnah is an Iraqi jihadist group dedicated to the establishment of an Islamic state based on Sharia Law in Iraq. Consistent with the Qur'an message, they believe that jihad is obligatory for Muslims. The group's membership is composed of Ansar al-Islam members, Tawhid and Jihad operatives, and salafi Iraqi Sunnis.

While it is hard to distinguish between the terrorist organizations, Ansar al-Islam and Ansar al-Sunnah claim to have carried out over 300 jihadist attacks since May, 2003, killing over 1,200 people. They are responsible for the kidnapping of the Nepalese contractors which garnered considerable press, as well as the beheading of an Iraqi military officer, a tape of which was distributed on the internet in November, 2004.

- November 20, 2003: Three Iraqis were killed and 15 were wounded in Kirkuk when an Islamic suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives at a checkpoint near offices of the PUK and Kurdistan Democratic Party.

- November 21, 2003: Muslims engaged in Allah's Cause launched s series of rockets into the center of Baghdad, hitting a hotel and a Oil Ministry office.

- November 21, 2003: In a mix of old and new, two donkey darts loaded with rockets were seized by the Italian Embassy in Baghdad.

- November 21, 2003: In Baghdad, Iraq, four people including a child were killed and 20 others were wounded when a Muslim militant threw a grenade into the booth of a street merchant who was selling alcohol. Killing those who sell alcohol enables Muslim murderers to frolic in Allah's streams of alcohol in paradise - or so the Qur'anic story goes. Islamicists had warned the vendor against selling booze during the holy month of Ramadan.

- November 21, 2003: Several rockets were successfully fired from a donkey cart into the Palestine and Sheraton hotels in Baghdad.

- November 22, 2003: Islamic suicide bombers in Iraq struck police stations in Khan Bani Saad and Baquba. They murdered 18 people and left 30 shattered bodies in their wake. One bomber wore a traditional suicide belt and entered the station before detonating himself and the other rammed a car filled with explosives into the station.

- November 22, 2003: A DHL cargo jet was struck by a surface-to-air missile as it took off from Baghdad's Airport. The outer portion of one wing was destroyed and yet the pilots returned safely to the runway.

- November 23, 2003: In Kirkuk, Iraq seven were wounded, including four Americans, in a rocket attack targeting a building belonging to the Northern Oil Company. Two rockets hit the building frequented by Americans from the Halberton Company.

- November 24, 2003: In Baqubah, Iraq, a member of the Iraqi Civil Defense Force in was wounded when two Muslims called him a traitor before stabbing him.

- November 29, 2003: The headline read: "Iraqi Insurgents Step Up Attacks on Nationals of Other Members of the Coalition." That was because on November 29th, an ambush in Mahmudiyah, Iraq killed 7 Spanish intelligence officers. Their convoy was ambushed by mortar and grenade fire 30 miles south of Baghdad. The al-Faruq Brigades claimed responsibility on the Movement for Islamic Reform website.

On this day, Iraqi Muslims also killed two Japanese diplomats and their driver near Tikrit when they stopped for some food at a roadside stall. A Lebanese Hizballah member was wounded in the assault.

- November 30, 2003: Another Iraqi ambush near Tikrit killed two South Korean electrical workers paid by the U.S. government. Two other Koreans were severely wounded.

- November 30, 2003: In Iraq, a Colombian employee of Kellogg Brown & Root was killed and two were wounded in an ambush near Balad. Iraq was quickly turning into Islam's poster boy for bad behavior. Thanks to George Bush, Muslims now had more readily available targets for Jihad practice.

- December, 2003: This month, 40 of the 48 Coalition fatalities were American soldiers. A total of 261 U.S. troops were wounded in action. Only one American, Theodore Perreault, 33, of Webster, Massachusetts, lost his life in Afghanistan this month. He died of a non-combat related injury.

Here are the men who were sacrificed in Iraq in the order they fell: Uday Singh, 21, (Habbaniyah ambush); Ryan Young, 21, (Fallujah IED); Raphael Davis, 24, (Samarra IED); Clarence Boone, 50, (non-combat injury); Arron Clark, 20, (IED in Mosul); Ray Hutchinson, 20, (IED in Mosul); Jason Wright, 19, (IED in Mosul); Chris Wesley, 26, (collapsed canal embankment); Steven Bridges, 33, (collapsed canal embankment); Joe Blickenstaff, 23, (collapsed canal embankment); Aaron Reese, 31, (boat accident on Tigris); Jerrick Petty, 25, (shot while guarding a gas station in Mosul); Richard Burdick, 24, (IED in Mosul); Marshall Edgerton, 27, (IED in Ramadi); Jeff Braun, 19, (non-hostile gunshot); Jarrod Black, 26, (IED In Ramadi); Kimberly Voelz, 27, (killed by an IED in Iskandariyah while responding to an IED disposal request); Rian Ferguson, 22, (fell from his vehicle); Ken Souslin, 21, (non-combat injury); Nate Nakis, 19, (skidded on oil soaked pavement in Mosul); Chris Holland, 26, (small arms ambush in Baghdad); Glenn Alison, 24, (physical training accident); Charles Bush, 43, (IED in Balad); Gerard Wasielewski, 20, (accidental shooting); Ed Saltz, 27, (IED in Baghdad); Stuart Moore, 21, (IED in Baghdad); Todd Bates, 20, (drown in Tigris trying to save his squad leader who had fallen overboard); Michael Yahinski, 24, (electrocuted repairing a Kirkik communications tower); Chris Splinter, 43, (IED in Samarra); Chris Soelzer, 26, (IED in Samarra); Eric Cooke, 43, (IED in Baghdad); Ben Biskie, 27, (IED in Samarra); Steve Hattamer, 43, (mortar attack in Baquba); Thomas Christensen 42, (mortar attack in Baquba); Mike Sutter, 28, (IED in Baquba); Mike Mihalakis, 18, (vehicle accident); Charles Haight, 23, (IED in Ad Duluiyah); Nikolay Saraev, 26; Anton Petrov, 26; Mitr Klaharn, 43; Svilen Kirov, 25; Georgi Kachorin, 29; and Ivan Indzhov, 36 (all killed by a suicide car bomber inside the Bulgarian Army camp in Karbala); Amporn Chulert, 46, (suicide truck bomber in Karbala); Curt Jordan, 25, (non-combat injury); Rey Cuervo, 24, (IED in Baghdad); Ernesto Caldas, 28, (IED in Fallujah); and Justin Pollard, 21, (non-combat injury in Baghdad).

Sixteen Americans were killed in Mishaps and IEDs deployed by Muslims claimed 21 lives. Suicide bombers claimed 7 victims. With the end of the year the Coalition had lost 592 soldiers. Of them, mishaps had claimed 289 lives and Muslim civilians had killed 299.

- December 2, 2003: Even Muslims don't like Muslims. Today in Kandahar, Afghanistan one Muslim bombed another inside a mosque. The imam provided services for the government.

- December 3, 2003: In Kandahar, Afghanistan, two Americans were wounded in Chawk Shahidan after attackers threw a grenade at a vehicle carrying Americans. The attacker was wearing a police uniform and carrying a Kalashnikov.

- December 4, 2003: In Kabul, Afghanistan, a bomb was detonated in the peacekeeping offices of the International Security Assistance Force. Even peacekeepers in Kabul were not safe.

One Afghan census worker was killed and four others were injured in an ambush in Dellarm, Farah. A spokesman for the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

In an attack on a government civilian convoy in the Bakua Desert of Farah, five were wounded and one fireman was killed. Farah governor Abdul Hai claims that the assailants were Taliban and two were captured.

- December 5, 2003: Even the Islamic city-state of Kabul was not secure. Fundamentalist Muslims fired a rocket at the US Embassy in Kabul less than two hours after U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld left the capital. Its impact was less than100 yards from the international peacekeeping headquarters.

- December 6, 2003: In Baghdad, the U.S. administrator of Iraq, Ambassador Paul Bremer, escaped an ambush on his convoy the day of the visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Bremer was riding in an armored civilian vehicle when a roadside bomb exploded and Islamic terrorists attacked with small arms fire.

- December 6, 2003: Eighteen Afghanis were injured after a bomb exploded in a Kandahar market. The blast destroyed shops and a hotel. The government blamed the Taliban.

- December 6, 2003: In Afghanistan, two Indian engineers employed by the U.S. government to construct the Kabul-Kandahar highway were kidnapped in the Zabul province. Their abductors were Muslims but they were not associated with the Taliban.

- December 9, 2003: Two more civilian workers from India, who were constructing the Kandahar-Kabul highway at American's expense, were kidnapped. On the same day, there was a massive explosion in Shahidan Square in Kandahar. The Taliban was responsible for the abduction and assumed guilty of the bombing.

- December 9, 2003: In Iraq, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military barracks in the town of Talafar, injuring 41 American soldiers and killing himself. The bomber drove a car packed with explosives to the gate of the barracks. Guards at the scene spotted the car and started firing on it until it blew up. In addition to the 41 Americans wounded in the blast, six Iraqi civilians were injured.

- December 9, 2003: In Iraq, a missile exploded in a mosque in the Hurriyah district of Baghdad, killing three people and injuring two others.

- December 10, 2003: In Iraq, two Turkish truck drivers were killed as they ate at a restaurant in the town of Beyci. The restaurant was assaulted by civilian gunmen who escaped, drifting back into a sea of Muslim militants.

- December 13, 2003: Iraq's former secular dictator was removed from a flee-infested mud hole and arrested. His capture while touted, would make absolutely no difference. It had not been worth the life of one American soldier, much less 3,000.

It is stunning to me that America is unable to process this rather simple equation. Those who support the war say that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. But that is not true. His removal from power cost 3,000 Americans their lives. And since the world is exponentially more diminished by the loss of these good men and women, the world is not better off, but impoverished by his capture. And if this rather simple equation is beyond the capacity of your moral judgment, then answer this: since 95% of all terrorist acts are Islamic, how is anyone better off now that a deadly Islamic government has replaced the ruthless secular one?

Come to your senses America. This is an ignorant, immoral, and winless war. The outcome was known before the first bullet was fired. It matters not how many thousands of Americans die, how many billions of dollars are squandered, or how many years soldiers are exposed as terrorist targets. So long as Islam infects Iraq the result of the American invasion will be to leave the nation worse than it was previously. Bring the troops home and impeach the president.

- December 14, 2003: There is nothing I could report that would be more alarming than what follows: an attempt was made on the life of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. A bridge blew up in Rawalpindi just seconds after his motorcade passed over it. Two remotely detonated bombs were found under the bridge. In May 2005, a senior Al Qaeda leader, Abu Farraj al-Libbi, was arrested in Pakistan and was accused of masterminding both attempts on President Musharraf's life in December 2003.

I dislike General Musharraf as much as I disdain Saddam Hussein, so under normal circumstances I would not be bothered by an assassination attempt on a dictatorial thug. But this, like what happened in Iraq is different, very different.

America's deceitful and moronic president had just forced al-Qaeda out of their caves and huts in Afghanistan and into Pakistan - the only Islamic country with nuclear weapons at the time. And it is only a matter of time before fundamentalist Muslims associated with al-Qaeda kill General Musharraf - and when they do, who do you suppose will control that thermonuclear arsenal? Here is a hint: Osama bin Laden enjoys a 70% approval rating among Pakistanis and Osama is now the most popular name for boys in the region.

Now, here is another question: where do you suppose Osama bin Laden and his fundamentalist Islamic organization al-Qaeda will deploy Pakistan's nuclear bombs when they gain control over them? I don't suppose you need any assistance with this answer so I'll leave you with this advice: if you live in New York City or in Washington, D.C., you may want to relocate. And if you voted for George Bush you may want to sit down and cry.

- December 14, 2003: An Islamic suicide bomber (excuse the redundancy) detonated his car bomb outside an Iraqi police station in Khaldiyah, 50 miles west of Baghdad. He murdered at least 17 people in the name of Islam and injured another 33. Fortunately, no American soldiers were in the area when the bomb exploded.

- December 15, 2003: In Kuwait, a drive-by shooting outside a port used by American forces wounded five foreign workers. The man, who later confessed to the shooting and two separate attacks on U.S. military convoys, shot at a bus carrying the workers.

- December 15, 2003: Monkey see, monkey do. Another Islamic suicide bomber drove his car into the gate of a police station in the Ameriyah neighborhood of Baghdad. The vehicle detonated killing the driver and injuring a number of police officers. A second car then drove into the compound and was immediately engaged in gunfire from U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police. The bomb in the second driver's car was built from a torpedo and a naval mine.

I don't suppose it mattered much that Saddam was behind bars rather than in a hole in the ground. All that really mattered is that before he was deposed Iraqis experienced one terrorist attack every other month and now they were enduring several each day.

- December 15, 2003: An Islamic suicide bomber killed eight Iraqi policemen at their station in Baghdad's northern outskirts. The bomber drove a yellow taxi to the gate and detonated himself there, earning a direct pass to hell.

- December 15, 2003: Two days after the capture of Saddam Hussein, there was another suicide car bomb attack on an Iraqi police station. This one in Husainiyah killed 8 Muslims and wounded 20 civilians.

Getting the "bad guy" didn't help. The George W. Bush administration was wrong when it claimed that terrorism would die down once Iraqis saw that there was no hope of Saddam Hussein returning to power. They had been wrong about everything.

Good, jihadist Muslims kill peaceful, hypocritical Muslims because the Qur'an orders them to do so in the 9th and 33rd suras. The Iraqi police were seen as aiding the Crusaders and so fundamentalist Muslims were following Allah's instructions when they murdered them.

Republican talk show hosts and apologists defend the loss of American life, money, and prestige in Iraq by saying that the world and Iraqis are better of with Saddam Hussein in jail. But as I share with you before, that is only true if your world is a vacuum. With America having exchanged a secular government with and Islamic one, and having equipped an army of 250,000 Muslims, the world is at far greater risk. And by almost any standard, the day to day lives of the Iraqi people are worse than they were under the hand of their displaced dictator.

The fact that over 30% of Americans, mostly Christian conservatives, support this war demonstrates that there is a disconnect in the minds of too many Americans. They cannot discern between actual reality and political positioning.

Those weaving fictitious perceptions for political gain justified their invasion of Iraq on the false notion that there was a direct connection between the Iraqi government and the events of 9/11. George Bush said as much in his aircraft carrier victory celebration. But that was not true, and he subsequently admitted it in an August 2006 press conference.

So then the Administration of the Christian Right justified their desire to go to war on the premise that Saddam Hussein had massive quantities of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons stockpiled with the intent of using them against America. The Iraqi dictator was said to be a clear and present danger. But that was a lie too.

So the Moral Majority spin misters deployed a new justification, this being the freedom of the Iraqi people who would joyously welcome the American troops as liberators. But in reality, they murdered them as America surrendered Iraq to the religion of submission.

I have met the enemy and the enemy is us. America's most formidable foe isn't Osama bin Laden; it is George Bush and his fellow politicians. They have done more to destroy American freedom and prosperity than Islam will ever do.

- December 16, 2003: In the Islamic City State of Kabul, known as the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, two rockets exploded. One landed outside the airport and the second exploded in a residential area. This attack came only hours before an assembly to debate ratifying the country's new Islamic Constitution and imposition of Sharia Law was set to begin. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and stated: "We warn you, there will be more attacks on Kabul, day and night."

The Taliban is an infamous organization, having ruled Afghanistan under strict Islamic Sharia Law for five years, between 1996 and 2001. While the Taliban has been ousted from its control of Kabul, it has re-surfaced working with Islamic warlords throughout the rest of Afghanistan.

The Taliban first emerged as a significant force in 1994. The group principally comprised Afghanistan's Pashtun tribesmen who had found refuge in Pakistan. These Muslim refugees studied in Pakistan's madrassas, which are Islamic religious schools. They received assistance from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) - the equivalent of America's CIA. The Taliban's membership grew to include mujahideen (holy Islamic warriors) who had fought the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

In 1994, at the request of the Pakistani government, the Taliban served as a security force for a Pakistani mission aimed at opening up trade between Pakistan and Central Asia. This exercise would prove to be the first step towards the Taliban's overthrow of the Afghan government.

The Taliban's initial conquest was the city of Kandahar, which it wrested away from a rival jihadist group. The Taliban continued to expand its territory, sometimes through armed conflict but also through negotiations and bribes to regional warlords. In 1996, the Taliban took control of Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city, thus becoming the de facto government. By late 2001, the Taliban would control 95 percent of the country.

As an interesting side note, the Bush Administration, in consort with Unocal, invited a Taliban delegation to Washington, D.C. to meet with political and corporate leaders in the Spring of 2001. More interested in rewarding the oil industry than in prosecuting terrorism, they brokered a deal to build a pipeline across Afghanistan with Taliban support. In on the deal was Hamid Karzai, which is how he became Afghanistan's President. And not surprisingly, he has signed documents approving the pipeline. A comprehensive review of this tragic tale can be found in the "Pipeline to 9/11" appendix to the Islamic Terrorism Timeline. There you will learn a great deal more about the Taliban, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, as well as their dealings with America's corporate and political leaders.

Having replaced a Marxist Muslim government, the Taliban, being Islamic fundamentalists, immediately imposed Islamic Sharia Law throughout Afghanistan. While Americans are wont to ignore it, Hamid Karzai's government has re-imposed Sharia Law. After all Hamid Karzai was an Islamic Jihadist and Mujahideen, serving as the Taliban's Foreign Minister before he joined Unocal.

As we have come to expect from all fundamentalist Islamic groups, the Taliban's goal is to establish the most pure Islamic state in Afghanistan. As a direct result, once empowered they imposed restrictions on women. They could neither work nor go to school. The Taliban also enforced amputations and public executions for violating Islamic Sharia law. The Taliban, in its campaign to impose salafi Islam, curtailed the flow of information by banning the Internet, television, and radio. The group forced Hindus and other religious minorities to wear symbols that identified them as non-Muslims and forced Hindus to wear veils as all Muslim women were required. In that regard they were akin to Hitler's Nazis.

As we have witnessed with all Islamic regimes, the Taliban arrested foreign aid workers who were assisting the poor Afghani population. On the positive side, the Taliban did enact certain reforms that garnered support among the people. They greatly reduced the rampant corruption that had taken hold within the former Marxist Muslim government. Second, the Taliban diminished violence in Afghanistan by reducing the internal fighting between warlords and diminishing the warlords' control of Afghan's civilian population. During their rule, terrorism was virtually non-existent, especially compared to the level it has risen to today.

The Taliban is infamous for providing safe haven to the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Not only was bin Laden allowed to roam freely within the country, he also established training camps for legions of future mujahideen militants, most of whom were being equipped to terrorize Kashmir on behalf of the Pakistani government.

The decision to host bin Laden destroyed the Taliban's chance of attaining international credibility - at least outside the Islamic world. Only three countries, Pakistan who created the Taliban, Saudi Arabia who financed the Taliban, and the United Arab Emirates who laundered their money, recognized the Taliban government.

Despite the pressure on the Taliban, they continued to rule the country under strict Islamic law and to allow bin Laden safe haven from 1996 to 2001. Following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the Taliban's support of bin Laden was alleged to be the reason the Islamic regime was deposed in December 2001, with the Afghan Interim Authority of another Mujahideen, Hamid Karzai, replacing the Taliban government - at least in Kabul. The truth, however, is considerably less noble. You will find the somber reality in the Pipeline to 9/11 and discover why neither al-Qaeda nor the Taliban were captured in the invasion.

As a result of an amnesty deal brokered by Karzai, the Taliban temporarily faded into the Islamic community. But they quickly re-emerged and now control most of Afghanistan apart from Kabul.

Mullah Muhammad Omar, also known as "Amirul Momineen," (Commander of the Faithful) remains head of the Taliban. He was born near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1959. His path to power began with the fight against the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, during which he gathered a group of Pashtun warriors to fight both the Soviets and other Mujahideen who were raping and looting villages near his hometown. In this regard Mullah Muhammad is a carbon copy of Hamid Karzai. But while Karzai would go on to cozy up to the Bush family and Unocal, Omar built his group of jihadists into the Taliban. With Pakistani support, they took control of most of Afghanistan by 1998.

Omar is committed to a strict literal interpretation of Islam. His Taliban has become notorious for his application of Sharia Law while he ruled Afghanistan. Mullah Muhammad Omar accepted the title "Commanded of the Faithful" in 1996, the first Muslim since a nephew of the prophet Muhammad to do so.

During his fight against the Soviets, Omar met Osama bin Laden. After Omar's Taliban took control of Afghanistan, he provided safe haven to his jihadist friend and allowed him to establish training camps within the country after he was booted out of the Sudan.

During his reign, Omar never once traveled to Kabul to establish a functioning government. Now that the Taliban has been ousted from power, Omar remains the Taliban's leader and is protected by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and millions of loyal Muslims.

- December 17, 2003: In Kandahar, Afghanistan, the Siyachu Primary School was attacked, killing a school guard. After the murder, the the salafi Muslims set the school and all its books on fire. Under Sharia Law, and thus under prior Taliban rule, these types of schools were forbidden.

- December 17, 2003: An explosive-laden truck driven towards a police station in the al-Bayaa district of Baghdad collided with a bus at an intersection killing at least ten people and injuring twenty.

- December 17, 2003: Also in Iraq, 27 people were killed and another 40 were injured when a large IED with over 1,000 pounds of explosives was detonated in central Baghdad. The car bomb exploded outside the Mount Lebanon Hotel where many foreigners stay. Two of the victims were British. On 19 March, Tawhid and Jihad claimed responsibility for the blast, writing: "Woe to the Americans and their allies for what is waiting for them in Iraq."

- December 19, 2003: A bomb destroyed the office of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Baghdad. This Shi'ite clerical organization would ultimately win the most seats in Iraq's Islamic government. The terrorist's bomb killed a woman and wounded seven others.

On the same day, Sunni Muslims shot and killed Shi'ite Muhammad al-Hakim, a representative of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution. Al-Hakim was head of security at the Education Ministry and he was a cousin of Abdel-Azziz al-Hakim, the Governing Council president at the time.

Yes, indeed, a Supreme Islamic Revolution had occurred in Iraq. But who in their wildest dreams would have thought that America would bring it to fruition.

- December 20, 2003: In with the old and out with the new: a former socialist and secularist Ba'ath party official was killed in Najaf by a Shi'ite terrorist following Muhammad's example. The militant Muslim killed Ali Qassam al-Tamami and Muhammad Mokhtar Khaayr inside an electric supply store.

- December 20, 2003: In Iraq, Muslims on motorcycles opened fire on another former Ba'ath official, Lamia Abbas al-Chill, as he walked his son to school. The man's child died instantly and Chill was seriously wounded. Chill was a close aide to Ali Abdullah al-Dhalimi, the former regional Ba'ath chief who had been beaten and shot by an angry crowd near Najaf on December 17th.

- December 21, 2003: In Iraq, another explosion took place outside Kirkuk hotel, leaving five people injured. The wounded included two security guards and three foreigners.

- December 22, 2003: In Iraq, a judge was gunned down near his home in Mosul. He was just the latest victim in a wave of attacks on officials working under Iraq's U.S. administration. The judge was shot six times in the back by several men in a car. Another judge, who had been investigating the activities of local Ba'ath party officials, was murdered the previous month in similar circumstances.

- December 24, 2003: The Iranian Embassy in Baghdad was hit by a volley of rockets on Christmas Eve. The devices hit a cement barrier in front of the embassy. This was the first strike in a series of seemingly coordinated attacks on the Green Zone.

- December 24, 2003: A Basra man who was selling alcohol from the back of his car was shot by a fundamentalist Muslim. Witnesses said the street was filled with cheering onlookers who supported his assassination. Alcohol shops are the frequent target of attacks by good Muslims because alcohol consumption violates Islamic law.

- December 24, 2003: Three Iraqis were killed and 20 others were wounded in a car bomb suicide attack on an interior ministry building in Irbil. Those killed included a ministry employee, two policemen, and a passerby.

- December 24, 2003: In Baghdad, a roadside bomb planted at the back gate of the Mar Yousif church blew up smashing windows and damaging nearby homes. A month earlier, another bomb was found at the gate of the church but unlike this one, it was defused.

- December 24, 2003: Rockets, grenades, and mortars were fired at the Sheraton Hotel in the Green Zone of Baghdad - a place which houses mostly Westerners. The hotel was shelled over the course of two days from the front and the back of the premises. One of the projectiles aimed at the hotel accidentally hit an adjacent apartment building, injuring three tenants.

- December 25, 2003: In Baghdad, Iraq, a gang of gunmen sprayed an Oil Ministry guard post with bullets.

- December 25, 2003: Also in Baghdad, the home of the Turkish ambassador was attacked with rockets. Even the Green Zone wasn't save.

- December 25, 2003: Muslims celebrated Christmas in Iraq by firing rockets into the German Embassy in the Karrada district of Baghdad. A shell hit the first floor of the building, starting a fire, which damaged offices and shattered windows. One man at the embassy was wounded in the attack.

- December 25, 2003: Four more rockets were launched by Muslims in Iraq. These were fired at the U.S. Coalition government headquarters in the Green Zone of Baghdad. Two of the devices hit the parking lot of the premises. The headquarters lies on the western bank of the Tigris River. Following the attack, U.S. soldiers arrested five Muslim civilians in connection with the attack.

- December 25, 2003: In Iraq, a roadside bomb detonated in the hands of a police officer as he attempted to defuse it. The blast blew off the officer's hand off and injured two other policemen. The IED had been planted, along with a second that was successfully defused, on Palestine Street.

- December 27, 2003: An Iraqi lawyer assisting U.S. forces with legal matters was gunned down outside his home in Mosul. Using automatic weapons Muslims sprayed Adel al-Hadidi with gunfire and injured his brother.

- December 28, 2003: In Iraq, the assistant to the Irbil Government Security Director survived an assassination attempt. He sustained serious wounds while three of his escorts were killed.

- December 28, 2003: In Iraq, Islamic gunmen opened fire at the offices of a U.S. company. The spray of bullets into the Research and Training Institute in Kirkuk killed an Iraqi security guard.

- December 29, 2003: On a road near the city of Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad, Iraqi gunmen targeted a car carrying foreign contractors working for the Ministry of Electricity. The gunmen killed two Iraqi guards and wounded a British engineer before escaping. This attack was similar to the ambushes in which three Japanese and two South Koreans were killed in November as they were traveling to Tikrit to take part in reconstruction programs.

- December 31, 2003: An Iraqi policeman was killed and three were wounded, one seriously, when their patrol came under machine gun fire in Kirkuk.

- December 31, 2003: In Iraq, a car bomb explosion outside Baghdad's Nabil Restaurant killed 8 people and wounded 35. The wounded included three Los Angeles Times reporters. The murderers blamed the Israelis. The newspaper blamed insurgents. Neither were right.

During this year and the next, more than 177 contract workers from 25 countries were murdered in Iraq by Islamic terrorists. Many of them were kidnapped and beheaded by those who were following Muhammad's example.

- Afterthought, 2003: In the June, 2003 installment of the Islamic Terrorism Timeline I answered the following question: how many Muslims are jihadists? During that discussion I systematically reduced aggregate field of 1.2 billion Muslims down by half by eliminating most all women. The total was diminished by half again by excluding men who were either too young or too old. Next the aggregate was reduced by 40% based upon polling data, in effect eliminating people who were insufficiently corrupted by Islam to be a jihadist even if the opportunity presented itself.

That left us with 1 in 7, or 15% of Muslims who are prepared to be jihadists by way of their fundamentalist indoctrination, sex, and age criteria. But those 180 million potential terrorists would only become jihadists should the opportunity arise. When it comes to actual jihadists, those who have or will commit an act of terrorism in Allah's name, the total may be no more than one in one hundred of the young Muslim men who have been sufficiently indoctrinated in salafi/fundamentalist Islam. And that reduction is based entirely on opportunity.

What we have witnessed in Iraq suggests that I was right when I said that the actual number of jihadists could jump one hundred fold almost instantaneously should the opportunity arise. If you will recall, before America invaded Iraq there were two minor terrorist acts every three months. After the invasion the frequency grew to between 2 to 3 acts of terrorism per day. That is a 100 to 1 increase. The fact that terrorists have been averaging 75 attacks per week since 2004, Iraq is actually enduring a 50,000% increase in terrorist activity. Yet, that paled in comparison to what happened in 2005 and 2006, when documented terrorist acts skyrocketed to over 200 per day - a million percent increase from the pre-invasion levels.

The moral of the story is: the fastest way to convert potential jihadists into actual jihadists is to send infidels into an Islamic country. To say that the American invasion of Iraq was counterproductive is the understatement of the decade.