Updates on terrorism

    • The UK police are report­ing now that the man they shot and killed was not con­nected to either of the sub­way bomb­ings. Oh no. This is bad.
    • By the way, I read some­where online that the police are say­ing the things left at the sites of the unsuc­cess­ful bomb­ings will pro­vide a lot of worth­while infor­ma­tion about the ter­ror­ists. I wish they would be spe­cific about whether there were bombs that didn’t go off or merely det­o­na­tors, because every­one is try­ing to fig­ure out whether these were true attacks that went com­pletely wrong or just a fear tac­tic. It seems amaz­ing that *four* bombs all failed, but an ana­lyst I saw on Fox News men­tioned that about 1 in 3 of ter­ror­ist attacks fail on their account, so maybe it was just a happy coin­ci­dence. This ana­lyst also men­tioned the intrigu­ing pos­si­b­lity that this might be the result of West­ern infil­tra­tors into ter­ror­ist cells who have com­pro­mised their explosives.
    • Via InstaPun­dit, here is an Egypt­ian blog­ger with some addi­tional and per­sonal info on yesterday’s bomb­ings in an Egypt­ian resort. (Cur­rent death toll: 83. This story doesn’t seem to be gar­ner­ing big head­lines, so you can read about it H E R E if this is the first you’ve heard.) The blog has gar­nered an Insta­lanche of com­ments, but they’re worth try­ing to make your way through. For instance, I thought this was inter­est­ing analy­sis from one com­menter named Finnpun­dit:

      I think that this is the worst time for the fanat­ics to be pick­ing fights with Egypt. This will only help align the Eqypt­ian peo­ple with the strug­gle of the nascent Iraqi gov­ern­ment, – a demo­c­ra­tic struggle.

      This was a very, very stu­pid move on the part of the ter­ror­ists, who’ve shown bet­ter ana­lyt­i­cal skills in terms of pol­i­tics (Madrid, 3/11). It seems to me that they are becom­ing more and more des­per­ate. Gone is the dic­tum that Mus­lims should not kill other Mus­lims. Their true demeanor as fanat­ics becomes all the more appar­ent, and most likely will mar­gin­al­ize them further.

      We all knew that it was going to hap­pen, but hap­pen this fast? They must be des­per­ate, indeed.


    Related posts:

    1. Howard lay­ing it down
    2. 6:40 am
    3. Lon­don attacks
    4. 12:16 pm
    5. 10:09 am — “I knew some­thing like this would hap­pen someday.”

    July 23rd, 2005 | Grace | 2 Comments |

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  • Jen 07.23.2005

    I just wish they would slip up enough that we could find Osama and bring him to jus­tice for 9/11 and all the other ter­ror­ist acts in our coun­try and abroad. He’s already admit­ted his guilt. It wouldn’t be nearly as dif­fi­cult to bring him to jus­tice as it may be with Saddam.

    Send­ing prayers to Lon­don and Egypt!

  • Grace

    Absolutely! It’s incred­i­ble to think that we can’t find this one guy. At this point, prob­a­bly tak­ing him out would lead to many lit­tle chiefs announc­ing that they were his heir appar­ent. Some of the actions of oth­ers like Al-Zarqawi showed that they don’t always fol­low his direc­tions. I wouldn’t be sur­prised if the Muslim-on-Muslim attack in Egypt is divi­sive among ter­ror­ists. All just spec­u­la­tion, of course. Who knows what the “rules” are, if there are any.

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