Payback time in Iraq...

[bridgit]

'It is highly doubtful, however, that Zarqawi or the Ba'athists would commit such a crime against such a holy place. First, al-Qaeda attacks are usually deadly. Bombs go off and hundreds are killed. Had al-Qaeda wanted to inflict pain, it would have detonated the bombs in broad daylight, during prayer time on a Friday. It is clear that this attack was intended to ignite tension, not to kill - nobody was in the initial attack.' http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HB25Ak02.html

awaiting the other shoe

[rodeodance]

1. umm.. see this DU thread.

....http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x518622

[bridgit]

2. umm...i did see it, what's your point...

or is that THEE definitive & last word on what is clearly evolving.

[genie_weenie]

3. Not to be overly sarcastic

But, this is just opinion. Highly doubtful? Why? According to whom? According tho this man's thought process.

To quote Mr. Sami Moubayed:

'The Sunnis are paying the price for refusing to carve up Iraq. They are paying the price for refusing Iranian intervention in Iraqi affairs.'

Uh-huh.

While ultimately the blame for the mosques destruction may lie with US, however, until I see evidence (first hand) not the wild speculations of people based on rumor, theory, conjecture and personal beliefs, the US did not blow up the mosque.

[bridgit]

4. none of it made any sense, it would seem the principle, usual suspects...

would have crowed to low heaven in this case; but no one has claimed responsibility. granted, i wouldn't care to say it was me, or some idiot under my watch, that dropped 'the sistine chapel', so maybe that's a given, but clearly the story is developing.

[genie_weenie]

5. Well, did any one claim the attack on the Wedding Party in Amman Jordan

last year? I think once public opinion was vehemently against the perpetrators, they scurried away as opposed to proudly claiming credit...

[bridgit]

6. i thought they had traced some back to zarqawi, wasn't one of them...

a woman from a husband & wife suicide team? i thought she basically laid it out in zarqawi terms. the president of iran says it's israel & america. in a thread i started the other day, someone else mention mousaad...which was roundly discounted. this i know...

if i did not want the credit for destroying an over-arching holy symbol, relic, or ark of my people however disperse, i would get that word out there. that i did not do it, nor sanction it.

from within any silence, zarqawi will be implicated being the source of such woe over there already.