Originally posted by Naso
Well, Nexus, usually a claim is recognized if contains elements that can be known only by the people responsible of the act.
That's true...
However... it's also possible that the people who planted the bomb... may not be AQ.... even though they say they are.
And what purpose... would that serve?
If all of a sudden bombs start going off in France, Germany and Russia... and the ones taking credit for it are AQ... does that mean it's AQ... or could it be CIA.. and the purpose is to persaude those countries to support the US efforts against terrorism.
That's not an absurb hypothesis.... especially with this Administration.
After all the Allies during WWII knew when Germany was going to bomb several densely puplated cities... and they did not evacuate or warn the citizens of these cities.. becaue if they did they would have tipped off to the Germans that the Allies had borken the enigma code. 10's of thousands died to save that secret....
Deception is very much a tactic in warfare.
What's a few 100 innocent people dead in order to win the war against extremist terrorists?
The Saudis have been sort of "neutral" in this war... wouldn't even allow us to stage from their country...
How do we make them our ally and more active in our efforts?
Easy... have the enemy attack them... (or perhaps the CIA mascarading as the enemy)
This war is escalading.... has any one noticed that?
AQ.. is not just attacking Americans... but everyone... why would AQ do that?
Why would AQ attack Arabs?
Especially in Mecca!
Doesn't make sense.... perhaps... it's not them.
Also consider this... OSL and Saddam better serve this administration as "living" specters than dead enemies...
It's odd that non of Saddams 20-some doubles have come up dead... or captured.... or any comment on their whereabouts.
The hunt for Hitler went on for decades...and the specter of his return and subversive activies always feared.
This is all speculation...