First of all, many times they don't target anything at all and they just drop bombs all over the place. They used cluster bombs quite a bit during 2003. All the Human Rights groups claimed this was a violation of the Geneva Convention, but as usual the Pentagon ignored these complaints.

Secondly, as I've said in other threads, most of the so called "terrorist" attacks in Iraq have been attacks on American military, Iraqi military, Iraqi police, and Iraqi government targets. They have not been civilian targets. But civilians have been killed.

More recently (in the last year) this infighting between Shiite and Sunni has begun and this has consisted of attacks on civilians, but prior to that, almost all the attacks were on legitimate targets.

Here are examples of what have been called "terrorist attacks", but which are on such targets:

Seven Iraqi Police Killed In Suicide Bomb Attack

3 Iraqi policemen killed in attack

Insurgents attack five sites, kill 17 Iraqi policemen

Car bomb attack on Iraqi police patrol kills

10 killed in suicide attack on Iraqi government buildings

Insurgents Attack Iraq's Interior Ministry

Iraqi base attack leaves 13 dead

Attack on US Iraq base kills 24

UK soldier dies in Iraq base attack

Attack on U.S.-Iraqi base kills at least 15

I could post hundreds of examples.

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