But you forgot ... the rest of the story.
The "terrorist," who was really an Iraqi who, for some bizarre reason, just didn't agree with the concept of a foreign power forceably occupying his country, had hit the kitty by accident; he was really shooting at the foreign invader. The "terrorist" had a wife and three sons, aged 9, 11, and 16 -- who before the US invastion had had little opinion on Americans, actually kind of admired them -- became understandably bitter, and vowed to revenge the murder of their father, no matter how long it took. It didn't help that their beloved kitty, a family pet for years, was also dead.
The 16 year old volunteered with a radical Islamic sect who really were terrorists, and was killed when he stapped a bomb to himself and gave up his life trying to blow up a bunch of the foreign invaders at a road stop. The 11 year old was blown up by the US bombing campaign in late 2007, when the Bush Administration, in a desparate attempt to do something about the continuing resistance before the 2008 elections, ordered the large scale bombing of several Iraqi cities. In the year 2022, the 9 year old, now aged 25, gave up his life when he set off a chemical bomb in Atlanta, Geogia, spewing Anthrax in a 5 mile radius around the city, killing thousands.
Now you know the rest of the story. And yes, it is sad.
