Lethal terrorist backlash followed the 2003 Iraq invasion

Evidence

There was also a lot of lethal backlash. The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (a Jewish American) was kidnapped in Pakistan in January 2002 and subsequently decapitated. The gruesome spectacle was taped and widely circulated throughout the world. In October 2002, a car bomb exploded outside a popular tourist nightclub in Bali, killing more than 200 civilians and wounding 100. On March 11, 2004, a series of coordinated bombings on commuter trains in Madrid, killing almost 200 people and wounding almost 2,000. On July 7, 2005, a similar attack on trains and a bus in London killed 52 people and 4 suicide bombers, and injured 700. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 529