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With instability comes damage to property and harm to innocents (part of modernwarfare is that innocents are bound to get caught in crossfire from both sides, becausewarzones are blurry in the modern era compared to traditional wars). AQ has aimed toavoid casualties of innocent noncombatants, but sometimes it has been inevitable inorder to achieve a bigger objective of targeting a high profile target. In later years theyhave stepped up the effort to win over the hearts of people by not detonatingexplosions in public areas, even if that means delaying the targeted killing of a highprofile target. This is why the amount of suicide attacks are less common in Syriacompared to Iraq.Early successes of Iraq war (2002-2006):In the early years of the Iraq war, the members of AQ gained many successes against theUS forces, they used the new improvised explosive devices (IED's) to blow up enemytransport, in addition to using 'martyrdom operations' (where people would strapbombs and walk into enemy territory and detonate the bomb, killing themselves andthe enemy in the attack.) Their scholarly evidences included the famous story mentionedin Sahih Muslim and surah Burooj (chapter 85) in the Quran, explaining the story of theBoy and the King - with the boy willingly getting himself killed for a greater purpose ofdefending the religion. In addition to his followers throwing themselves in a Fire ditch(Ukhdood) willingly, sacrificing themselves for the sake of preserving the religion of God,and Allah describing them as achieving 'the great victory' (Quran 85:11).This successful method of attack was exported to Afghanistan for the new generation ofTaliban and AQ for the years to come.AQ achieved alot of successes in the early stages of the Iraq war, with the US army atloss and many of their soldiers getting psychological disorders (part of the fearpsychological campaign) which Abu Mus'ab al Zarqawi used of beheading the enemyand distributing the videos on the internet.41