Wait and see. Wait and see.
Look, I do believe that Iraq is serving as a training ground, but at this point to try and say the follow on bomb tactic is directly from Iraq is not very honest.
The follow on bomb where there's one detonation followed by another a bit later to target rescue workers and people in the chaos has been around alot longer than the Iraq war.
There is some evidence that tactics and terrorists are flowing out of Iraq, but to try at this point to link the Iraqi tactics to these bombings is way too premature and driven by a larger political agenda.
Just from the descriptions of Friday's bombs in the news (thanks, newsmedia, for telling me how to make a car bomb, by the way,) these devices are substantially below the technical sophistication and effective level of the Iraqi carbombs.
We may later find out that there is some sort of direct connection, but to latch onto one paragraph at this point in a breaking story and promote it as broad proof is fairly disingenuous.
The follow on bomb where there's one detonation followed by another a bit later to target rescue workers and people in the chaos has been around alot longer than the Iraq war.
There is some evidence that tactics and terrorists are flowing out of Iraq, but to try at this point to link the Iraqi tactics to these bombings is way too premature and driven by a larger political agenda.
Just from the descriptions of Friday's bombs in the news (thanks, newsmedia, for telling me how to make a car bomb, by the way,) these devices are substantially below the technical sophistication and effective level of the Iraqi carbombs.
We may later find out that there is some sort of direct connection, but to latch onto one paragraph at this point in a breaking story and promote it as broad proof is fairly disingenuous.
posted by mikevotes at
4:13 PM
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More bullshit journalism from the Times.
Did you see Atrios quote from McClatchy on a speech Bush gave about Iraq last week? McClatchy called Bush on all his bullshit in the speech, fact-checked the crap he was saying and basically said he was full of shit. The Times simply uncritically reported the speech. As Atrios said, McClatchy makes real journalism look easy. It's a pity the schmucks at the fucking Times and other major media outlets can't be more responsible and professional. But then again, I guess they wouldn't get to enjoy as many cocktail weenies and cucumber martinis hobnobbing w/ the elite that way.
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Reality-Based Educator, at 7:46 AM
I'm assuming you;re talking about the 23 Al Qaeda references.
What's weird is that Robert Gates is going completely the other way.
When asked about the Askariyah shrine bombing,
"Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that the U.S. has no "hard evidence" that the Sunni Muslim insurgent group al Qaida in Iraq was responsible for the recent bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra, although Bush administration officials cite the attack as proof that al Qaida in Iraq is stoking sectarian violence.
It "seems to me that that's probably an analytical conclusion. I'm not sure whether they have a lot of hard evidence about it," Gates told reporters at the Pentagon."
Mike
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mikevotes, at 7:49 AM
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