9/11 Was a Disaster for the People of Iraq (original) (raw)

The organized state terrorism that was practiced by Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq, the totalitarian ideology adopted by that regime’s members, the absence of state power after its collapse as a result of the 2003 war, the regional powers’ exploitation of the social diversity in Iraq for the purpose of partitioning it along sectarian and ethnic lines, and the presence of the multinational occupying forces have all been factors contributing to the activation of terrorist operations under the pretext of resisting foreign occupation. While disguised by a sectarian cloak, that terrorism was and still is carried out against civilians and their infrastructure.