Reading between the lines on the murder of Mrs Hassan,it would appear that her death is the responsibility of criminals seeking to "sell" her on to "insurgent" groups.
When al Zarqawi called for Mrs Hassan to be freed, the group holding her obviously decided to kill her and go into hiding.

al zarqawi wants to terrorise foreign workers and governments in an attempt to hinder the Wests bid to set up a puppet government and phony democracy.
He obviously realised that to kill someone who was loved by ordinary Iraqis would be counter productive.

So I dont think the unfortunate death of Mrs Hassan could be called terrorism in the accepted sense..


Brucie ,hope all is well with you....
Would not an "attempt to break the will of the people to continue fighting" be construed as terrorism,if it involved slaughter of civilians and destruction of their homes.