IRAQIS DISGUSTED WITH ICRC BOMBING

Iraqis who spoke with our correspondent on the streets of Baghdad today say they were shocked by yesterday's seemingly coordinated series of bombings -- the bloodiest single day in Iraq since the end of major combat operations was announced on 1 May.

Today, meanwhile, another suicide bomber blew up a car near a police station in the town of Fallujah -- 60 kilometers west of Baghdad -- killing himself and several civilians.

A Baghdad man in his 40s, Ahmad, says the attack against the Red Cross was terrorism, pure and simple.

"It is the peak of terrorism. Is there more terrorism than this? Why do they bomb residential areas and humanitarian organizations? They call it 'resistance.' It is not resistance. Among those who were killed, you cannot find a single American. Thirty-four Iraqis were [killed in yesterday's four bombings], and the figures continue to rise. All of them are civilians."

Let's get one thing straight, Ahmad. These actions aren't being done by those who want Iraqis to rule Iraq. They are being done by those who want to rule Iraq themselves.

And they are the same jihadists and radical Islamic theocratists whose messages and practices of oppression, subjugation and death have already driven much of the Arab world into the lawless, hopeless lands that they are.

Seems to me it's about time the self-respecting Arabs out there, if there are any left, figure this out.

This isn't about America. This is about Islam. And Islam is being lost to the thugs, the corrupt, the power hungry, and the small minded.