Today at around 4pm as I was going about my work, I heard and felt a large blast not far away, it is a fairly common occurrence so I wasn't too alarmed, until later when I returned to the office to hear that the UN headquarters had been bombed.

There was an unusual buzz around the operation center, people grabbing bits and pieces of information relating to this afternoon's sad course of events. I was saddened to hear that numerous people had been killed and injured, only adding to my concern for all of our soldiers out there in harms way.

It was even more unsettling to discover that many innocent bystander, people looking for work and a variety of other individuals had fallen victim to these latest acts of random terrorism. At times I feel that it is impossible to make sense out of such a senseless, meaningless loss of life and property. What kind of people are they anyway?

What is even more disturbing is the fact that many of these acts of terrorism are committed by non-Iraqi people, those from other countries who have traveled here for the sole purpose of disrupting our efforts to give to these people a life free from fear, bondage, and torture. As if their small random acts of violence will even put a dent in our resolve to continue in our efforts to provide security and freedom to these people.

What kind of place is it that will deliberately breed such contempt and hatred for people, hatred that knows no bounds or limitations and will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of killing innocent human beings? People that will do such things are blinded by their own relentless hatred that they cannot even see the good that is being done over here.

Maybe our efforts for the most part are going unnoticed: the schools and hospitals that have been opened, the playgrounds and housing projects that have been started, and the many jobs that have been created. Where is all the talk about the thousands of good things that have been done? Why is the media not assisting to promote the word that many great things are occurring day after day? Where is the truth in reporting that makes good news as sellable as bad news?

My partner and I were tasked to go talk to the hundreds of people that were displaced by the bombing of the hotel, or UN HQ, being told that many of them were slatted to sleep over in our palace tonight. But as of yet no one has shown up, even though over 150 beds were set up in the chapel in anticipation of their arrival.

We were supposed to speak with any of them that wanted to talk to someone about what happened or what they might have seen, hoping to provide the intelligence community with some leads. I am going to go back over in a few minutes to keep tabs on things, but I thought this would be a good time to let everyone know what is happening.

I am fine, if any of you are wondering. Life goes on as usual, these acts of terrorism hardly causing us to skip a beat in the process of reconstruction. Our resolve is firm and commitment in tack, for we will succeed and be victorious.

This is the right thing to be doing; righteousness will prevail over the evil intentions of misguided hate filled people. Keep the faith. Do your part in assisting us to be able to continue until we are finished with our plans. We need your help. Tell everyone you know that we will not give in to their negative reporting and we will not give up until we are done.

Thought you would like to know.