ABSTRACT
The experience of terrorism and counter-terrorist activities in Iraq after the war of 2003 is a classic example of the way in which both activities exist on their own spectrums of behaviour. The Iraq experience from 2003 to 2011 witnessed single acts of terror, and then terrorism directed within Western societies for the sake of events in Iraq, but also the use of terrorism as part of a guerrilla movement that eventually developed into outright civil war. Iraq suffered under a series of terrorist campaigns in these years that covered the complete spectrum from terrorism to war. There were single terrorist acts of expressivism or personal identity, but increasingly the organised use of terror tactics within a guerrilla force fighting for control of the state.
