This appeared in the West Australian obituaries section 16 Feb 2010 about the late Sultan of Johor.

This will serve as interesting info for those who are not familiar with his reputation and confirmation of suspicions for those who are.

Cliff May in the National Review Online seems to have noticed a potential trend.

Expanded to include Al-qaeda inspired attacks affecting civilians since 1993 wtc

Chart of Terror attacks since 9/11 and resulting casualties (update 7/7/05)

Munitions in Iraq

The amount of insurgent/terrorist activity in Iraq as reported by the media recently must mean that a lot of munitions have been deployed and are still potentially to be deployed.

One can only imagine where these would have been deployed and probably with much more devastating consequences if Saddam had not been removed when he was.