[Eric Esot]

REVISED: At least one American soldier and two Iraqis were killed in a terrorist grenade attack on a U.S. tank in central Baghdad on Sunday, al-Jazeera television reported.

The network, quoting its own Baghdad correspondent, said the terrorist attack occurred in front of the city's main mosque. It said several more people were wounded. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military.

[Nexus]

Don't you mean Freedom Fighter? /sarcasm

[SJSAMPLE]

I support the war in Iraq as well as anybody, but; when you invade a country (for whatever purpose), the people who live there aren't "terrorists". I wouldn't call them "freedom fighters", either, because they aren't fighting for freedom. But they are definitely "combatants". We have to stop defining-down this term as much as possible. Pretty soon, everybody with a grudge/disagreement against the government will be a "terrorist".

[Destro]

I agree with SJSAMPLE. Terrorist attacks are only such if they are aimed at civilions. Terrorisist use violence as a means of coercion for and against civilians. The Iraqis doing this are armed guerilla combatants and not to view them as such is a danger.

[TheBattman]

Of course the part you forgot to revise - that the terrorists likely came from and returned to the Mosque.

Or could it be some rogue Christians fighting to rid Iraq of those pesky imperialist Americans? [/sarcasm off]

[thinktwice]

The network, quoting its own Baghdad correspondent, said the terrorist attack occurred in front of the city's main terrorist center, a mosque.

Repeating something I wrote yesterday ....

The world-wide "I don't want to think about it" evasion about the war on terrorism will result in far more economic damage if it is not accepted -- soon -- that the enemy is an unchecked and highly supported wing of Islam.

Until that fact is accepted, and then vigorously addressed, the war on terrorism will be lost -- as in Vietnam, where the real enemies were China and Russia.