Today Michael Ledeen alerts us to the fact that indeed the war on Iraq is one and the same thing as the war against terrorism: yesterday's surgical strike on Baghdad killed a Palestine Liberation Front terrorist. The focus on the weapons of mass destruction, the torture chambers and the suffering Iraqi poplulation shifted the attention away from the presence of major terror groups in Iraq. And they have been there for a long time, the infamous Abu Nidal for instance spent his last days in Baghdad. It is very clear that once Baghdad falls we will have contributed in no small part to the collapse of groups that have perpetrated the most heinous crimes in Israel and indeed all over the world. It reminds me of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communist East Germany when it became clear that the country had been a safeplace for various left-wing and Arab guerrillas. Losing support of a centrally located safehaven was a major blow for many of these terrorist groups and for some it was the end. The fall of Baghdad will be a major setback for Palestinian terrorists. I wonder how Arafat is sleeping these days.